Word: santas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Thomas Moran, painter. It found him in his 90th year in Santa Barbara. He was the last of four senior Morans illustrious in U. S. art: Edward, Thomas, Peter, and Mary Nimmo Moran, the Scotch painter-etcher who married her teacher, Thomas. There survive Leon and Percy Moran, sons of Edward...
...shall be in Santa Barbara for another month, but I shall, of course, make a special trip to Los Angeles on Aug. 31 to vote for you." The California Primaries are just about the best political sideshow now on view in the Republic. Presidential hopefuls and other bigwigs, unheard-ofs and the ghosts of bygone statesmen crowd the stage. Local feuds, Hearstling newspapers, religion, and the World Court make good scenery...
...Lincoln Nev.-Carson City N.H.-Concord N.J.-Trenton N. Mex.-Santa Fe N.Y.-Albany N .C.-Raleigh N. Dak.-Bismarck Ohio-Columbus Okla.-Oklahoma City Ore.-Salem Pa.-Harrisburg R. I.- Providence S.C.-Columbia S.Dak.-Pierre Tenn.-Nashville Tex.-Austin Utah-Salt Lake City Vt.-Montpelier Va.-Richmond Wash.-Olympia W. Va.-Charleston Wis.-Madison Wyo.-Cheyenne
...years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
...passenger train on the Santa Fé railroad rumbled smoothly through the night over the plains of Texas. A proud train crew was in charge; proud because back in one of the Pullmans slept a handsome, motherly middle-aged woman, no less a personage than Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, Governess of the whole huge state...