Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press advocating the election of either Coolidge or Davis terms Senators LaFollette and Wheeler radicals, meaning Anarchists or Reds, as General Hell-and-Maria Dawes, Mr. Coolidge's running mate, terms them. These papers even go so far as to convey the impression that Mr. Dawes was a real General in the World War. He, as a matter of fact,* fought the World War in Evanston, Ill., his home town...
...Died. Maria Thompson Daviess, 52, artist and author; in the National Arts Club, Manhattan; of heartdisease...
...subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt, crossing themselves repeatedly. It was the tenth anniversary of the death of His Holiness, Pope Piux X-Pio il buono, the Romans call...
...Maria Garcia Menocal, Cuban-born (1867) , was educated in the U.S. at Cornell University, was admitted to Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (strong nationally and strong at Cornell). During the Spanish-American War he functioned as a fiery guerilla leader. Then he turned his attention to the Cuban American Sugar Co., took charge of the largest sugar estate on the island. In 1912, he was elected President of Cuba on the Conservative ticket. He was reelected in 1916. "Unemotional, quiet, determined, honest, economical, friendly to the U.S. say friends of Menocal...
...Austrians. Without imposing a defeat, the former scored a victory, orderly, harmonious. In this azione, were cast the finest singers of a honey-throated nation. Signora Poli-Randaccio was Aida, brought to the part of the Egyptian maid a southern warmth and temper; Giovanni Zenatello was heard as Rhadames, Maria Gay-Zenatello as Amneris. In the famed ballet-scene were 200 girls, "all beautiful...