Word: sotto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Countess Santa Eulalia, 71, of Philadelphia, Indiana farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif...
Further down towards University Hall an original gentleman trots along in a beret, very proud of the scornful looks and sotto-voce remarks wasted on him. Up the steps of Widener stamps an immaculate professor in an equally immaculate light grey felt on his way to the furthermost stacks of the Library...
...SAILOR'S GARLAND?An Anthology of Sea Poems, collected by John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). Here Mr. Masefield has gathered his favorite songs of the sea. No fainting nostalgic verses, whispering sotto voce of flying spindrift, cloudy sails and hushed lagoons are these, but salty ballads, roaring chanties, brave sea-tales. Though Chaucer, to whom Mr. Masefield owes much, John Donne and Sir Andrew Barton are well represented, most of the poems are comparatively modern. This is explained by the fact that the older poets, through the Elizabethans, knew the sea only well enough to fear it, regarding...