Word: manuela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 26, multimillionaire horseman, onetime "most eligible bachelor in the U. S."; and his wife, the former Manuela ("Molly") Hudson, 24: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Wendie...
Married. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 25, "most eligible bachelor in the U. S.." owner of Sagamore Farm and famed handicap horse Discovery, co-heir with his brother George to the $20,000,000 fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...
...Mexico City, citizens were horrified to read that they have been eating hot tamales in which the tender meat was the flesh of Mexican babies. Consuelo Segura, 30, confessed to kidnapping 326 babies which she sold to one Manuela Frias, wife of a petty government employe, who said she eked out her husband's meager pay by murdering the infants and converting their flesh into tamales...
...months ago a pretty, 25-year-old Roman Catholic nun named Manuela Mary Adamic, serving in a hospital at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, broke her religious vows, ran away, married a patient she had nursed through a long illness. In Manhattan her nervous, energetic, expatriate brother, Louis Adamic, author of two books on the sturdy Adamic family, observed, "She asks me, naively, to forgive her for the step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned...
With a man she had nursed through a long illness at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, eloped pretty Nun Manuela Mary Adamic, 25, sister of Author Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dynamite). Observed Author Adamic in Manhattan : "A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength...