Word: oliva
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pride and Frustration. Then the British moved in. They cut French General Oliva Roget's line of communication with his base at Beirut. Into Damascus clanked a column of Sherman tanks on which Union Jacks had been freshly painted. Up from Cairo flew General Sir Bernard Paget, British commander in chief in the Middle East, who had several hundred thousand men on call. Paget ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British...
...stucco-and-stone mansion, built with Quint profits near Callander, he will live with the healthy, chubby, stolid Quints, Mama Elzire, the less famed Dionnes-Ernest (19), Rose (17), Thérèse (15), Daniel (13), Pauline (11), Oliva Jr. (8), Victor...
...week, Attorney General Leslie Blackwell introduced a bill, certain of passage, which will make Papa Dionne sole guardian of his wealthy ($50,000 a year income, plus a six-figure reserve), renowned Quintuplets.* Ontario courts henceforth will supervise only their contracts (pictures, soap, etc.). Otherwise, from July 1 on, Oliva Dionne will have full authority over all his children...
...Oliva Dionne has changed in the past decade. Before Marie Reine Alma, Emilie Marie Jeanne, Cécile Marie Emilda, Annette Lilianne Marie and Yvonne Edouilda Marie were born, ten years ago next May 28, he was a shy, thin, weather-beaten, unlettered farmer grubbing a living for his brood from 200 unproductive acres near Callander, Ont. He still farms the same soil (hay, oats, cattle), but only in a supervisory way. He wears neat business suits, has filled out, looks more urban than rustic. He is assertive now, aware of his responsibilities, no longer thrown off balance by publicity...
When Quint Guardian J. A. Valin, a judge who is now 86, recently resigned, the Province re-examined the guardianship setup. Its decision: unnecessary "intervention in [the Dionnes'] affairs should not persist." A contributory factor: public opinion has turned more & more toward Oliva Dionne ever since the late Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, also a Quint guardian, was photographed in 1939 in New York City wearing a pink mortarboard and a sign reading: "Doctor of Litters...