Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Mexican clergy recently came an eloquent appeal that nuns in general be not held responsible for the acts of one demented individual. The individual in question was Mother Superior Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, 36-year-old bobbed haired...
...meeting on April 13 she directed one Maria Elena Manzano, 21-year-old beauty, to proceed with four men, then present, to the city of Celaya, site of an approaching festival, there to inveigle President Calles and General Obregon into dancing with...
...This Maria knew that she could do. Secreted on her person was a lancet covered with a deadly poison; whether she would have the courage or the opportunity to administer without detection a tiny scratch upon the hands of her distinguished partners, she did not know. However, her companions carried six-shooting, surer weapons in the event that she should fail...
...Celaya the crowds were large. Maria wondered how she would escape if plans went awry, trembled at the thought of consequences, hesitated. Timidity was contagious. The men agreed that postponement was a wiser course...
...late Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette). Their goal was anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins...