Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost the Kentucky Derby by a nose, the Preakness by four lengths, but Sword Dancer, the little chestnut three-year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...
Washed Up. In Los Angeles, Isabel Hernandez, 63, burned up because commuters waiting for buses dropped cigarette butts, papers and other refuse on her front lawn, boarded a bus with her garden hose, doused driver, passengers, seats and coin...
...Like Moses,'' Belle begins, "I wasn't born. I was found." She was found one day in 1875, "squalling and squirming" beneath a big sunflower on the outskirts of Emporia, Kans., and carried home by John Ramsay Graham, editor of the Emporia News, who named her Isabel and raised her-except for a brief period when she was kidnaped by some passing Indians-as his daughter. At 17, Isabel saw a performance of Robin Hood, decided then and there that she wanted to be an actress, ran away from home and got a job in the road...
...wife of Education Minister Armando Hart, joined the uprising after Batista's jailers killed her rebel fiance and brother. In Castro's casual headquarters she was a cook one moment, an adviser the next, finally went to the U.S. as contact and fund raiser. Dr. Isabel Rojas, 32, commanded the only organized women fighters-a headquarters guard company that participated in a few easy ambushes in the war's final days. Protected closely by strike forces of guerrillas, her girls suffered only a few flesh wounds...
...star role like a First Lady of the Stage, which for Miss Anderson is nothing new. Her Australian accent is comprehensible once you get used to it, and not inappropriate for the memory-ridden, shabby-genteel matriarch. She projects a genuine grandeur, a sense that no matter what Isabel Lawton does she is somehow worthy of admiration. In cold fact Isabel Lawton is worthy of very little admiration, and Miss Anderson makes her much better worth watching than Mr. Lamkin had any right to expect...