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Although your reviewer probably used the word because it was spoken by Señora Moreno (Pauline Frederick) in the film, I believe it cannot rightly be applied to a California Indian woman. Certainly its use is resented and regarded as an insult by Indians of many tribes...
Last week His Holiness Pope Pius XI turned from the contemplation of troubled Spain to accord honor in the New World to a city once piously named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles. There he created a new archbishopric, first to be organized in the U. S. in 43 years. From the Province of San Francisco (established in 1853) the Supreme Pontiff detached Bishop Philip George Scher and 98,000 Catholics of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno. From the Province of Santa Fe (established 1850) he de tached Bishop Daniel James Gercke...
...time-clock detonator was parked outside the editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais's two-story building, shattered the Church of Nuestra Señora de Monserrate across the street, broke glass storefronts for a distance of six blocks, killed four, hurt 27, and was credited with having done $200,000 damage. Police at once threw a cordon around the area, discovered the touring car full of dynamite and disconnected its time-clock before it could...
...Manhattan, searching a sidewalk ora- tor they had arrested, police found only a pamphlet, entitled What To Do When Under Arrest-One Cent, published by the radical International Labor Defense. What...
...have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib. en' pardon her, en' pardon me, en' pardon us all for getting in the way of thy greatness; en' grant us grace to have faith in thy dignity en' importance, per benedicte pax hugger muggery ora pro puggery rigmarolum...