Word: sante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...
...study by Howard Chandler Christy. Most insistent was Artist Boris Gordon who yowled that the commission be awarded to his picture without further ado largely because he produced the official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset...
Meantime the neighboring convent of Sant Lazare has taken in a beautiful young waif, Dolores. The saintly prioress soon finds she has got more than she bargained for. Dolores' passionate influence is like a spark among the dry tinder of the convent. The nuns work hard, rise early and sleep in their own coffins, but some of them are overyoung to be the brides of heaven. Among these, Dolores' influence seems sinister if not definitely devilish. The prioress thinks she can make her into a good nun. But then young Pedro comes prowling around the walls, sees Dolores...
...boys! Wait until Hotchkiss heard about that! Students Wetter and Newberry were roommates. Student Newberry had some fame as a prankster. They were both tired of going out for sports under the hard-driving supervision of "Monnie" Monahan. However dignified and cultured ''The Duke" (Headmaster George Van Sant-voord) might be, they wanted no more of him. They were fed up with the classroom tyrannies. Besides, Students Wetter and Newberry were not doing well in their studies. With Students Wetter and Newberry roomed another boy: Henry Ford II, son of Edsel. They had told him their plan...
...votre santè, papa," says tear-stained Poil de Carotte...