Word: theresa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theresa, N. Y., Inventor Oscar Eggleston demonstrated a device by which a fish nibbles at a baited hook, sets a red flag waving, a .22 cartridge discharging, an electric bell ringing, a light flashing, a short-wave radio sending signals, brings the fisherman...
When Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, he left behind not only his great-lover reputation, but a plain, square, tin box with part of the evidence. In it were three dark red braids contributed by the "Maid of Athens," Theresa Macri and her sisters; a ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since...
...Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...
John Baker Opdycke, husband of the Theatre Guild's famed Director Theresa Helburn (with whom he lives in a house called Terrytop in the Connecticut hills), is no mediocrity himself. Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, Cornell, Columbia and Oxford, he was a newshawk at three Olympic Games (1904, '08, '12), wrote 22 books on prose style, advertising technique, etc. He was also for 35 years a teacher of English, most of the time in New York City high schools, from which he retired at 60 last year. Teaching, journalism and writing developed...
...fondled Wunderkind, he sat in the Empress Maria Theresa's lap, was petted by Madame de Pompadour, spent hours playing private concerts for England's demented music-loving George III. But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities...