Word: vera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deprived of her husband's company at the outset of her honeymoon, while Howell, pretending that he has a very important legal task to execute for a client in Cleveland, goes off to Boston to double-cross for an indiscreet friend. Mrs. Pembroke's son Ned, a hard-hearted Vera who has the usual incriminating letters and ideas of their proper...
...Jalapa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexican workmen employed in an American-owned electric light and power plant went on strike demanding, so despatches averred, a 150% increase in pay. The plant is owned by the Higgins Estate Inc. of Manhattan and was managed by William K. Boone, U. S. citizen; but Mr. Boone, unable to effect a settlement with the strikers, was forced to surrender the entire plant to the State authorities, acting on the orders of Governor Jara, and promptly left to file a protest in the U. S. All this took place last March...
...church steps, Patriarch Joaquín shook thousands of Mexicans by the hand, gave the needy alms, told all to "go home and tell your friends you now belong to the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico." Some did. There was fighting for churches in Chilpancingo, Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Morelia, Tabasco. In some places, Government troops defended the Roman Catholics in the possession of their churches; in others, good Catholic (Roman) laymen came stoutly to the defense...
...Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded the U. S. troops who pacified the district of Santiago. In 1914, he took part in the capture of Vera Cruz...
...notable addition to the cinema gallery for the week. Addicts will recall the first Potash and Perlmutter film with considerable satisfaction. The second (derived from the play Business before Pleasure) is quite as entertaining. The four-star label on the billboards displays the names of Alexander Carr, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and Betty Blythe. When Abe takes to kicking the lion under the impression that it is a dog in disguise, there is really no point in anyone's retaining his gravity. The subtitles are even more diverting...