Word: elvira
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...concern for its patients. Alliance's 100 occupants are in the care of seven nurses and 25 nurse's aides, who work hi three shifts so that the home will be staffed round the clock. Most of Alliance's patients are not only healthy but happy. Elvira Axeen, 82, still goes out every Wednesday to make coffee for her Bible group. "I'm going to be busy as long as I can do it," says she. So are others. "As long as you can complain and be up and around, you're young," says...
...time when no new literature worth reading is being published in Czechoslovakia. The "official" literature oscillates between two genres: trashy novels and political pamphlet. Mr. Muller can again serve us as the example of the first type, with his cheap would-be sexy novel. "With Elvira...
Things get a bit sticky when Walton agrees to let his daughter Elvira marry a royalist, Lord Arturo Talbot. They get even more awkward when, on the wedding day, Arturo spirits Enrichetta away from the Puritan fortress to safety. Elvira does not understand that, and goes sweetly and pathetically mad, while Arturo is sentenced in absentia to death...
...word arrives that the Stuarts have been defeated and Cromwell has pardoned all political prisoners. Arturo and Elvira are united, as they themselves put it, "in ecstasies of pleasure...
After the march, the demonstrators and some curious shoppers proceeded to Boston Common where Elvira Lozana described the labor conditions which led to the 17-month strike against Farah by nearly 3000 non-union Chicana women. Lozana worked in one of Farah's four El Paso, Texas, plants for five years...