Word: ora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reginald Weir of New York: the National Colored Tennis Championship, beating Defending Champion Douglas Turner of Illinois 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 8-6, in the final at Tuskegee, Ala. New colored woman champion: Ora Washington of Philadelphia...
...Buenos Aires, terrified sextons, devout churchgoers, and two policemen found Guido Francveschini in the belfry of the church of Nuestra Señora de Buenos Aires. Lying on his back, with bell ropes tied to his feet, he was waving his legs in the air to ring the bells...
Though it failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...