Word: senorita
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...lovely ladies hastened to the Hotel du Pont Royal to pay their last respects. There Primo de Rivera lay in state in a brown homespun gown, coarse sandals on his large pale feet, a huge rosary of polished granite beads in his lifeless fingers. The Marquesa de Arguilles and Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos, two ladies whose intimacy with Don Primo had caused many a scurrilous press clipping, came early in the afternoon, gazed sadly at their friend in one costume they had never seen him wear, the habit of a lay brother of the Carmelite monks...
Others who felt the same way about "Nationality" and "Allegiance" were Panama's Sefiorita Glara Gonzalez and Nicaragua's Senorita Juanita Fromen who ended her address with the ringing cry, "Equality between men and women in regard to nationality must be realized!" after which the I. C. W. adjourned to a jolly banquet at the cost of Havana's gallant Mayor...
...49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss in a Taxi, Lovers in Quarantine, Senorita), embodied a gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels had a good time and seldom took a holiday. She was engaged to Charles ("Fastest Human") Paddock, but called it off. One winter there was a popular song called "Bebe, Be Mine" and even now when she goes...
...fits, better than most, the gum-chewers' idea of a movie queen. They can call her a senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...
Bitterly Duke and Count complained that their honor had been sullied by the Marquis. What did he mean, they asked in effect, by breaking off his engagement with the Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 18) and giving as his reason her "imprudent and inexplicable" conduct in appearing on the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by the Duke and Count...