Word: reina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an artist. She found her opposite number in Paris, but he left her; then, she tried to make second bests do. Lucia was born on the Riviera, but she went to Paris to learn about love. When she was tired of being an old man's darling, she tried a young...
...broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet...
Married. Don Marquis, 48, famed Manhattan columnist, amiable novelist-poet-playwright; to Mrs. Marjorie Vonnegut, actress. His first wife, the former Reina Melcher, died two years...
...shipment contained more than 500 doses, enough, it was thought, to meet the present emergency. Four more deaths occurred, bringing the total to 30. Of these new fatalities, two were men who contracted the distemper while working to subdue it: Father Brualla, pastor of the Nuestra Senora la Reina mission, who fell a victim when administering last sacraments to the dying; Emmet McLaughlin, ambulance driver. As the week ended, order was restored in the district; the Red Cross flag flew over the schoolhouse; the curse was abating...
...next novel, to follow The Temptress, has already been published in Spain. It is called Sa Reina Calipa...