Word: pasto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princess Lydia Pasto Hotchkiss Cucurbitaceo-the department store, you know. And the Countess Vitetti-the former Natalie Coe of Long Island and South Carolina. And the Countess Roberti-old Ogden H. Hammond's daughter. And Marchesa Vastezza-the former Bobbie Belchers of New York. And Baroness Carogna-the former Josephine Paddle-ford of Waukegan and Washington, D.C. And the Countess del Sgombro-who was Daphne Zugsmith of St. Paid. And of course, the Marchesa Sconciatura, who was the former Bridget O'Hare of Worcester, Mass...
...Pasto, Colonel Diogenes Gil proclaimed himself President...
...road to Popayan, the abductors of President Lopez abruptly turned around, rattled back through Pasto, turned off on a mule trail. They had heard that the Popayan soldiers were loyal. At 5 p.m. the party stopped for the night at the hacienda of a couple of old-line, embarrassed Conservatives. Liberal President Lopez and son were agreeably entertained...
...noon next day a captain turned up at the hacienda with half the Pasto garrison. He slipped the President a gun, confided that he was about to release him. The soldiers thought the captain was simply taking over the prisoners. After lunch everybody set out again...
Colonel Diógenes Gil and car uncertainly joined the cavalcade. Presently news came that the people of Pasto were approaching to rescue the President...