Word: seeings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diary two years ago. Death came to her in shame and poverty last week. She died of pneumonia without receiving a word or line of sympathy from her first cousin George V, King and Emperor. Her brother, Wilhelm II, telephoned to ask if she would like to see him at the last. "Nein, nein," whispered Victoria of Hohenzollern, "I don't want to see anybody but my nurses...
...TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed at even lower prices later in the slump week. At the time the Holy See gave no sign, unless an article in the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano could be called such. In an article flaying "Market Vampires and , Exploiters," Editor Count Dalla Torte lamented that "the fate of the great world of investors is left to the caprice and enchanted power of a handful...
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...spite of its melodramatic story and the pidgin-English used by the characters, Romance of the Rio Grande is a highly atmospheric account of the routines of a big Mexican rancho, its noises, difficulties, fiestas. Baxter and Moreno, respectively grandson and nephew of the ranch owner quarrel to see who inherits the layout. A new girl named Mona Maris has a shrill voice and wiry body that suit her role as an orphan-pensioner living on the rancho...
...Indianapolis some 14 years ago, a healthy 12-year-old child, free from funny fixations, was taken to see Anna Pavlowa dance. The child had no notions of dancing, was to all appearances just a midwesterner with an eight-letter name?Ruth Page, daughter of Dr. Lafayette Page, now director of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for children in Indianapolis. But she left Pavlowa's recital starry-eyed, went home and practiced pirouettes in the parlor...