Word: lopezes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22, fourth daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 41. Philippine-born cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Charge: nonsupport...
Orchestra Leader Vincent Lopez took out a copyright on his new, streamlined version of The Star-Spangled Banner, became the only person to hold a copyright on the U. S. national anthem...
...population of Paraguay in 1862, when Francisco Solano Lopez became dictator, was more than a million. When he was killed eight years later, after six years of war with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the male population added up to about 29,000. On the strength of this record Lopez has usually been considered a strong candidate for first place in the ranks of the world's worst rulers. Last week William Barrett made a valiant attempt to restore Lopez' tarnished laurels with a romantic, fictionized biography that paid a great deal of attention to the tremendous odds against...
Aside from his calamitous reduction of Paraguay's man power. Dictator Lopez' great claim to distinction was his love for Eliza Alicia Lynch. Eliza was a needle-witted Irish girl of uncertain background who became his mistress in Paris, bore him four sons, and was charged by his enemies with having egged him on to his worst atrocities. Although Author Barrett works hard to make her a glamorous figure, he seems to be fighting against odds almost as great as those that destroyed Lopez. To her credit he emphasizes that she was devoted to the dictator, followed...
...Lopez objects to the high notes of "the rocket's red glare." Would he expect anyone to describe rockets with low notes? . . . He also objects to "land of the free" as being too high. Instead of being too high, it is one of the loveliest climaxes ever written to any song. ... I have been a composer for many years, and have never heard as much as one complaint about the high notes of our National Anthem until Mr. Lopez came along...