Word: oliva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan for Christmas shopping, Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne-ex quintuplets-went to see a musical comedy Too Many Girls...
Month ago Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club, a self-boosting boosters' organization, honor-guested folksy little Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, made him don a white gown inscribed "Doctor of Litters," carry a bag labeled "Mass Delivery." In Callander, Ont.,† fertile Father Oliva Dionne decided he had been ridiculed, slow-boiled, exploded with a damage suit against Dr. Dafoe...
Sixth Day. In Toronto Monday noon, Their Majesties met the only Canadians who are perhaps more famous than themselves-the Dionne Quintuplets. What happened history will enjoy longer than any other episode of this trip. With Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Oliva Dionne and wife and seven of the eight other Dionnes, the Quintuplets were bustled into the Lieutenant Governor's room of the Parliament Building. All five wore puffy, white organdie court frocks and poke bonnets, and each wore her favorite flower in her hair. Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through...
Adither over the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (see p. 24), Elzire Dionne, after many a false start, finally selected a gown for her presentation. Color: "japonica" (a rust shade). Jittered Papa Oliva Dionne: "Me, I'm just a farmer and don't know what to wear...
Last week Ontario's Provincial Secretary Harry C. Nixon wrote a letter to Oliva Dionne, father of Annette, Cécile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and several other less famous children, inviting him to bring the quintuplets to Toronto on May 22 to see the King and Queen. The letter offered the use of two private railroad cars, seats at a royal luncheon and official reception, use of Premier Hepburn's private office "when the girls are not in the private car on the tracks"; and ended with a reminder that "this will probably be the only opportunity your...