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Word: maria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a majority of the students questioned admitted being members of the Student Union, all vehemently denied that the action was sponsored by this organization. As individuals they had started to distribute the material at 6.30 o'clock yesterday morning, when police interrupted, placing the organizers in the Black Maria. Pleading "nolo" to the charge of violation of the town ordinance prohibiting circulation of pamphlets, the students were released...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS JAILED FOR UNION PARTICIPATION | 3/9/1937 | See Source »

Though plaster fell from the walls, the firemen tore down no partitions and broke no windows. Colonel Apted reported "No Damage." Seven engines and a "Black Maria" attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESERTED HOT SHOWER SENDS IN FIRE WARNING | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel of the Royal Palace where Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, christened him with twelve names: Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amadeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God's Sign | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMITIC MUSEUM GETS COLLECTION OF RELICS | 2/11/1937 | See Source »

Rainbow on the River is a sentimental costume drama, dated 1875, in which the cinema's No. 1 boy soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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