Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assassin-By order of Christ the King, that His laws should have due effect in Mexico...
Striding into the restaurant La Bombilla, General Zertuche proceeded to reconstruct the crime. By his stern order not so much as a plate or saucer had been moved. There was the table at which Mexico's one-armed hero had sat down to luncheon, beaming and bowing amid plaudits. Next to his blood-stained bullet-riddled chair was that upon which had sat Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon, conversing jovially with Obregon...
...revolutionary triumph began to lengthen, Obregon might easily have seized the Presidency. But he stood aside for his friend Venustiano Carranza, bearded, schoolmasterish, vain. When Carranza had had his swig of power and seemed reluctant to pass on the cup, General Obregon ousted him and probably issued the order which resulted in his assassination...
...policemen, acting upon a court order which temporarily restrained the producers from exhibiting the piece, appeared at the theatre while the play was in progress. Their captain, one Layne, leaped upon the stage with a cry that the curtain be rung down. He was rewarded by impolite and illbred hoots from the gallery, by blows and shouts from the actors. Even the producer and his lawyers flocked about Captain Layne, threatening lawsuits. They attempted to make speeches but were pulled roughly from the stage. Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later...
...tragedies as poignant and improbable as those through which they sighed and fainted on the stage. Even their indiscretions possessed grandeur and all their daring only added to their dignity. Thus with Bernhardt, Modjeska, Rejane, Duse, Rehan and thus with Ellen Terry, who, a Dame of the Grand Order of the British Empire, the last of her peers, died last week, at 80, in an old house near the tiny town of Small Hythe, England...