Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of the war," said Mr. Norton, "we raised the Ameri- can flag on our villa and provided shelter for some of our Spanish neighbors." Said Mrs. Norton: "There is a road up the hill behind our house called 'execution lane,' where dozens of our best friends were shot down like cattle-sometimes because they were Rightists, because they were Catholics, and sometimes because they were gentlemen and ladies. I have seen priests and nuns shot. Nobody was safe. When we finally saw the troops of General Queipo de Llano approaching it was the happiest moment...
...Scotch farmer: the flyweight (112 Ib.) championship of the world; by defeating Benjamin ("Sma11") Montana of Manila, U. S. flyweight champion, in 15 rounds; at London's Wembley Club. Smallest recognized class in prize fighting, established in 1910, flyweights have had only one other recognized world champion, Pancho Villa, who died in 1925. ¶ The Yale swimming team, coached by Bob Kiphuth, who last winter started the practice of observing his squad from the bottom of the pool (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936 ): its 154th consecutive intercollegiate dual meet; 60-to-15 against Pennsylvania, in its debut...
...several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights for five years -and he drove with his clattering escort to the handsome villa of Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung to await, in luxurious surroundings, commutation of his sentence...
...Duke & Mrs. Simpson. It was an achievement last week that Mrs. Simpson was able for the first time to go shopping in Cannes without causing a crowd to collect. She ate her Christmas dinner not in the villa of her friends Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers but with her famed chaperon Aunt Bessie in a Cannes hotel. Greatest ambition of the Woman of the Year seemed to be to drop from world publicity's most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion, the perfect 1937 exit for the Woman...
...Villa at Cannes of Manhattan Social Registries Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers: At 11:45 p. m. Mrs.Simpson, having driven straight through in 20&3189; hours from Blois with only briefest stops, arrives to find haven with these old friends whom she first knew in China. In her bedroom a private telephone line and special hookup for instant connection through to England has been installed. Mrs. Simpson calls Fort Belvedere. At Cannes the first statement made for her is handed to reporters at the Hotel Majestic by Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII...