Word: rosario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing trial, applauded lustily, for the swindles that Faustino had perpetrated were just such poems as all their dreams were made of. For 15 days last year, he had convinced them all-and many a harder head into the bargain-that a certain penniless foundling named Maria del Rosario was in reality a marquesa possessed of vast lands and riches. A local bank had cheerfully advanced money to Maria to clothe her new dignity. Maria had established herself and her foster parents in a new home to await delivery of her lands and castles. All Valencia reveled in her good...
...regulation three minutes to give the nocturnal caller time to retreat into the darkness, then she opened the door. In a wicker basket outside, a baby girl lay sleeping. "Take good care of my baby," said an unsigned note pinned to the basket. "Her name is Maria del Rosario. God protect...
...weeks later, Faustino returned to the Trigo flat with a briefcase full of documents. "Right here," he said, "I have proof that you are none other than the illegitimate daughter of the late Dona Maria del Rosario Heredia de Fonte Uberta, Marquesa de Escalona del Valle, Grandee of Spain and lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Here," he added, "is a copy of your mother's last will leaving you all her titles, privileges and estates...
...maimed), the town had staged a remarkable comeback. It is not only the chief port for Texas cotton and Texas sulphur but-by virtue of its beaches and its tolerance-the state's leading hot weather resort, convention city and playground. The Maceo brothers, Sam and Rose (for Rosario), two dark, big-nosed Sicilian-born barbers who became Prohibition rumrunners, were among the leading spirits of this renaissance...
Maximum Effort. In Manila, P.I., Columnist Ernesto del Rosario of the Chronicle suggested that the new republic's austerity program might be more successful if government officials would: 1) limit the cost of their wives' party dresses to $500 or less each, and 2) not make the state support the "other woman...