Word: jacinto
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...time for the trouble with Mexico. Santa Anna drenched The Alamo in its defenders' blood, put the Government and people of the new Republic into panic. Commander-in-Chief Sam Houston yelled, "Remember The Alamo" and raised an army out of the ground. In 15 minutes at San Jacinto he wiped out Santa Anna's far larger force, losing only six of his own men. Worshiping Texans gave the hero two terms as president, sent him to the U. S. Senate when Texas joined the Union...
...same garbled footnotes the names of Spain's Jacinto Benavente & José Echegaray, and Italy's Grazia Deledda & Giosué Carducci were misspelled or wrongly accented. To TIME'S Theatre Department, rebuke for stupid errors...
...Mapuche warrior chiefs who led his braves against the Araucanian, again against Argentine invaders from across the lesser Andes of the south, was venerable Jacinto Lefignir Ineleu, then 68 years old. Last week, 120 years...
...They fought the battle of San Jacinto on my aunt's property," he exclaimed violently. "But do you suppose the history books say so? They do not; they say it was fought near an old well. And there was oil in that well too. I know it because I got a hundred dollars...
...eight original Houston children, survivors are Andrew Jackson Houston, custodian of San Jacinto battlefield, and Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst of San Antonio. Living descendants: 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren. Living grandchildren are: Mrs. Margaret Bell Probert, New York novelist; Mrs. G. H. Loe, Toledo, Ohio; Temple Houston Jr., Enid, Okla.; Sam Houston Ill, Claremore, Okla.; Richard Houston, Woodward, Okla.; Mrs. W. C Henderson, Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow...