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...Goya y Lucientes, also known as "the Turbulent," took a more than artistic interest in the beautiful Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba (so gossip whispered in history's ear), and amused himself by painting her in the nude. A well-wisher tipped off her husband, the 13th Duke of Alba, who flew into a boiling Spanish rage. Gallant Goya had to think fast...
...sergeant major since 1930, formed up the delegates representing 1,800,000 Federation members. They passed in review before A.F. of L. President William Green. (The lines were somewhat thinned, owing to a transportation tie-up occasioned by the coal strike called by the A.F. of L.'s 13th vice president, John Lewis...
...their first meeting since 1940, the University's Board of Overseers will convene May 13th and 14th. A report on the inauguration of the new General Education Plan and a visit of veterans Housing Units will comprise the major business...
Just after one o'clock the Advance lurched to a halt. Trainmen suspected a hot box. Diners in the next-to-last car looked idly through the windows at the frame houses of Naperville. From the 13th car, an ordinary Pullman, a flagman raced up the cinders to warn the Exposition on the wide curve behind...
...road to change. Where the road would end, its president and the first twelve vice presidents could hardly say. But the 13th vice president doubtless had some ideas...