Word: vera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...
...Stew, eh, Vera,' he said, going into the kitchen. She kissed him closing her eyes slowly. When she kissed him like that, closing her eyes, he felt that he had not known her very long and watched her moving around the kitchen. He sat down on a kitchen chair. She bent over the sink...
...Vera Cruz episode and the outbreak of the World War kept him much occupied with naval affairs during 1914. In March, 1915, he was appointed National Commissioner to the Panama Pacific Exposition, and visited San Francisco with the vice president, on the same trip inspecting various naval properties and ships on the Pacific coast. The year 1916 was wholly occupied in doing what was possible under the existing law in getting the Navy Department prepared for the threatened hostilities...
Just a few lines to correct a misstatement made by one Eugento Vera in your issue of Sept. 3 concerning the success of the Debating Team of the University of Puerto Rico in the Eastern States this past spring. This team did not win in all its debates. It was defeated by Boston University on April 10, by Bates about a week later and then by Princeton. Of the dozen or so debates in which the Porto Ricans took part, only two were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken...
Married. Prince Alexander Bariatinsky, 23, grandson of the late Tsar Alexander II; to Princess Olga Mossalkaka, 17, granddaughter of the late Col. Peter Mossalkaka of the Imperial Russian Army; in Washington, D. C. Also married last week was Princess Olga's mother, Princess Vera Pleschkova-Mossalkaka, 34, to Alexander S. Georgiades, onetime of Arcadia, Greece, now a Washington florist...