Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Few victims of the Machado reign of terror knew what was in store for them. They were shot down peacefully in their own homes, like the Freyre de Andrade brothers, or murdered on their doorsteps like Editor Andre of El Dia, or shot from passing automobiles, or rushed without warning...
Some Irish Catholics say: "On Lady's Day there's a cure in the waters." Last week came Lady's Day-the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Though the Church provides for no such celebration, indeed frowns upon it as superstitious, many a...
A fire on the speedboat of U.S.-born Raymond Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed...
PRESENTING LILY MARS-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Author Tarkington's memory, straying fondly over his own early love for the stage, has lingered long enough to inspire a sentimental romance about the U. S. theatre some 20 years ago. Presenting Lily Mars concerns a Southern smalltown girl whose...
Few years later (1824) a pre-nuptial flight ended in tragedy. The English aeronaut Thomas Harris took his fiancee up in a balloon from Vauxhall, London. After getting altitude he opened a hydrogen valve, to hover in the skies with his lady. Then occurred the same mishap as befell Commander...