Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that far off day when the North was shocked with a concrete illustration of how the institution of slavery functioned. As he talked...
Accordingly, Mr. Stimson conferred with the Liberal military leader, General Jose Maria Moncada last week at Tipitapa, while some 50 U. S. marines stood guard. Next day General Moncada made public the following letter...
...London Opera Syndicate, which backs the opera at Covent Garden, presents Britain with its only season of truly "grand" opera.* Some two-thirds of the Syndicate's singers are well known to U. S. audiences for they come from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York?Maria Jeritza, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Lauritz Melchior, Rudolf Laubenthal and many another...
...plane is a fine one," he said, speaking of the Santa Maria II, the plane sent from Italy to replace the one in which he flew across the South Atlantic and which was accidently burned at Roosevelt lake, Arizona. "I flew from New York to Boston without even giving it a trial flight. We simply assembled it and started...
Standing on the shore, Commander de Pinedo watched his two globe-trotting comrades dive from the plane and swim to safety. But soon the Santa Maria was a charred mass of wire and twisted metal. The heavy engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland...