Search Details

Word: pizzarro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...church she shuffled slowly down a shadowy side aisle to the ornate tomb of Francisco Piz-zarro. Within a glass-walled casket lay the old conqueror's mummy with bones showing here & there through the dark yellow skin. "This was our gold mine [for tips]. Pizzarro is like one of my family," she smiled. "It was my job to keep his chapel clean. I also kept all the keys, including the keys to the underground vaults where archbishops and bishops lie buried. And of course I helped to ring the bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Bellringer | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

| 1 |