Word: santo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little disappointed over this Annapolis business. Some of the youngsters I've sent there haven't turned out so brilliantly." "I will succeed," promised John Henry, aged 14. He did succeed, graduating in 1892, serving with the Marines in the Spanish War, in Panama, Santo Domingo, and China. He was a strict disciplinarian, a hard worker, an able officer. He did not, however, get to France during the World War. For a time that omission looked as if it might spoil his chances of gaining the post that is every Marine officer's ambition, Commandant...
...cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...
Handsome Sons Carlos and Luis, home on vacation from Georgetown University, romped off with their lively sister Maria and a party of friends toward Santo Domingo Square. Weaving among spruce citizens and loutish peasants, whirling to the strains of native music, they had just begun to enjoy themselves when suddenly at 10 p. m. explosion after explosion tore the air, broke windows and set women screaming as flames leaped up into the night. "Mother of God it's the President's Palace!" cried husky voices. "A Revolution! They've blown up the President!" Pale but courageous...
After that nothing but approving votes were heard until Siam's Assemblyman softly murmured "Abstain."* Other abstainees who either sent no Assemblyman or simply did not vote totaled 13: Abyssinia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Honduras, Irak, Liberia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador. Gravely President Hymans read out the final count: 42 to 1-hailed in Geneva as "The World against Japan!" Ruling that the Committee of 19's recommendations had been adopted "unanimously,"* Mr. Hymans called Japan a land "which seems desirous of retiring into isolation and carrying on its policy without taking into account the opinion...
...sudden West Indian hurricane and tidal wave smote the south shore of Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...