Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place...
...February, 1922, Pedro Nel Ospina was elected...
...seven capital ships absent were: Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Navy yard; Arizona and Mississippi at Norfolk Navy yard, all being overhauled and modernized; at Brooklyn Navy yard, the Arkansas and Wyoming, being overhauled; at Puget Sound the New York; at San Pedro, Calif., the Idaho, just overhauled at Puget Sound...
These historic characters are now impersonated by a notable cast. As Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Fiske has a role worthy of her farcial talents, and James T. Powers can exercise all his vocal tricks in the delineation of comical Bob Acres. Among the others: Rollo Peters; Pedro de Cordoba; Margery, daughter of Cyril Maude; Georgette, daughter of George M. Cohan. It is a pleasant diversion, recalling a time when the stage was consecrated to mannerly gaiety, ending in a few blithe measures neatly danced by the entire cast beneath the arching trees of King's Mead Fields...
Citizen Barlow claims that in 1919 he bought swamp acres in what is now the business centre of Havana, developed them with streets, sewers, watermains; that one Pedro Gomez Mena. in connivance with then President Zayas of Cuba, seized the land, formed Gomez Mena Land Co.; that Cuban courts had upheld the Barlow titles; that officers of the land company as Cuban Congressmen were immune to arrest and prosecution; that therefore the court orders against them could not be executed...