Word: senores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senor Patiño's customers the most important is the National Lead Co. whose principal business is to make things out of lead-such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without which many of the most widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps...
...Indias." The first copy of the "Historia General de las Indias" was published in 1535 at Seville. Written in a diffuse style, it embodies a mass of curious information collected at first hand. This book, on exhibition now, ends with an epistle addressed, "Al reverendissimo e illustrissimo senor el cardenal de Espana don fray Garcia Fofre de Loaysa," and it is signed by the author...
...Havana, a baby born to blonde Senora Caridad Perez developed black eyes, dark skin, kinky hair. A baby born to brunette Bernardina Vega became blonde, blue-eyed. Senor Perez sued for divorce. Police investigated, found that the babies, born in the same hospital, had been bathed together, mixed. Senor Perez canceled his suit...
...Senor Gonzalo Robles, who has been Mayor of Tacna City under the Chilean regime, gloomily signed away the municipal buildings, the civic water works, the provincial railways, everything. Across the table Peru's beaming, complacent Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio in effect signed receipts. Both statesmen worked cautiously, inspecting each document minutely ere they autographed it irrevocably. Dawn broke. Presently it was high noon. Still the pen-scratching continued...
...pleased with Cornelius, but Cornelius was not pleased with his salary. Consulting Alfredo Gonzalez-Prada. Charge d'Affaires and First Counselor of the Peruvian Embassy, he learned that in the U. S. no servants are "indentured," that all can do as they please. He also learned that Senor Gonzalez-Prada wanted a servant. Thereupon Cornelius left the Poindexter household, went to the Prada household. Vexed, used to her own way, Mrs. Poindexter had her husband complain to President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru. Eager to please, President Leguia ordered Senor Gonzalez-Prada to return Cornelius to the Poindexters. Senor Gonzalez...