Word: pedro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...constabulary officer, Lieutenant Pedro Dionisio, raced the flood to his headquarters at Echagüe and telegraphed before the wires went down that there were already 20 known dead in the village of Cagayan. He added: "No reports received from the towns and barrios around Ilagan, as they are submerged." The postmaster at Alcala succeeded in reporting that the river was six feet over the tops of the telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming...
...Nearly half a century ago a little boy was walking with his father and mother in a park of a city in southern France. Toward them came a distinguished-looking elderly couple-Don Pedro the Second* and his Empress. That occasion was my first introduction to Brazil...
Hustling Los Angeles may not resent TIME'S omission (Nov. 9) of her port at San Pedro as the scene of idle ships in the current maritime dispute. But quiet San Diego would like it known that two, not 22, vessels were tied up at her docks at the strike's outset...
...these, it also awarded the second prize of $600 to spectacled French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard for a gaily colored still life of a breakfast table, the $500 third prize to a study of two stolid peasant women leaning over a table, the work of Spain's Pedro de Valencia...
...trained nurses have always been Sisters of Mercy, these nuns were ejected last week by untrained radical nurses despite the protests of Madrid doctors who warned that the death rate among the wounded was already abnormally high. Big as two cartoon Capitalists, Madrid's huge-paunched Pedro Rico Lopez ("The Fattest Mayor in Europe") remained an amazing demon of dynamic work, waddling furiously about as he bellowed orders, made successful efforts to keep food supplies moving into the capital...