Search Details

Word: sefiorita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which had been snipped from a Spanish sefiorita. But by far the most intriguing was one packet holding a single fair ringlet, with the bemused memo in Byron's faded scrawl: "Whose this was I don't recollect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Like 250,000 other Venezuelans, Señorita Mercedes Urbina and her cousin, Sefiorita Elena Josefina Gonzalez Urbina, enjoy taking a modest flyer on the Five-and-Six, he country's fabulous Sunday horse-race lottery, based on a five-or six-horse combination. But since they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Lucky Misses | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Others who felt the same way about "Nationality" and "Allegiance" were Panama's Sefiorita Glara Gonzalez and Nicaragua's Senorita Juanita Fromen who ended her address with the ringing cry, "Equality between men and women in regard to nationality must be realized!" after which the I. C. W. adjourned to a jolly banquet at the cost of Havana's gallant Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Tyranny of the Male | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Last week a symposium of rumors emanating from Spain would have read: "The Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Majesty Returns | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Married. Prince Henry XV of Pless, 63, Hohenzollern, to intimate friend Sefiorita of Wilhelm Clothilde Silva y Candamo, 26. Prince Henry was Secretary to the German Embassy in London before the War. Two years ago, he appealed to the Pope for a dissolution of his first marriage on the ground that his wife's father, Colonel William Cornwallis-West, had forced him, in 1891, to marry her at the point of a revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

| 1 |