Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Smith in an orphan...
...Orphan into General. To trace the life circle which began and ended at Huatabampo would strain an epic pair of compasses...
...Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
Milton D. Crandall, the shrewd and sportsmanlike promoter who was so nearly injured by his surly beneficiary, is a rather small man, partially blind, and an orphan. As a youth, without father or mother, he was thrust upon the world in Baltimore. At that time quite completely deprived of sight, he entrusted himself to a surgeon who, in the face of overwhelming odds, restored...
...that he has chosen definitely, at last, among the too many ladies who have sought through him to sway the course of Spain. There was, for example, very recently, the Marquise de Arguelles. Perhaps it is well that her somewhat sinister influence will be supplanted by that of the Orphan & Spinster-who is one of the richest women in Spain, and accounted sage with the wisdom that comes from managing large monetary affairs...