Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...travelers had crossed the Sierra Pacaraima from Brazil into Venezuela to investigate the aboriginal legend that the Orinoco and the Amazon have a common source. They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards. (Hence Stevens' monkey meat...
Engaged. Ralph W. Ince, cinema director, to Miss Lucille Mendez, chorus girl, daughter of the late President Cipriano Castro of Venezuela. He was divorced a fortnight ago by Lucille L. Stewart, sister of Cinema Actress Anita Stewart, who charged cruelty...
Cuba. President Gerardo Machado y Morales signed a Sanitary Convention negotiated on Nov. 14, 1924, by Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Para guay, Peru, Salvador, Santo Do mingo, the U. S., Uruguay, Venezuela...
...Venezuela. In Washington, the sword of General Jose Antonio Paez, Liberator of Venezuela, was presented as a gift of honor to U. S. General John J. Pershing by the Venezuelan Charge d' Affaires, Dr. Francisco Gerardo Yanes. The sword, the most sacred trophy of the Republic, was accompanied by the Order of the Liberators, Venezuela's highest order, together with an album containing photographs of the General's recent visit to the South American Republic...
...jungle to dispute possession of the clearing. They are used to these annoyances, and could themselves be annoying if you should ascend the Parima River to its source and find them at home, before they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with...