Word: annas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
...Princess Anna Ilynski, and the Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas; a son, in London. From his father the child inherits the unlikely chance of someday becoming Tsar of Russia; from his mother, who was Miss Audrey Emery of Manhattan, the millions of his late grandfather, Leather King John Emery...
...separated from Coahuila as a Mexican State. The petition was refused. Independence was declared. Sam Houston was chosen Commander-in-chief of the Texan Army. On "San Jacinto Day" (April 21) Texans still celebrate the final victory of his 743 raw troopers over the 1600 soldiers of General Santa Anna on the banks of the San Jacinto River near the site where Houston City later rose. Sam Houston was the first and only president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845). He was U. S. Senator from Texas from 1846 to 1859. Elected Governor, he refused to swear allegiance...
...story definitely follows the outlines of what has been called "greatest novel in the world." Anna Karenina meets Count Vronsky one snowy day, has an affair with him that reaches its climax when she leaves her husband and its conclusion when she accepts a defeat (which is totally inevitable) by stepping in front of a fast train. That any film producer should begin by calling his picture Love and end it with this necessary but cinematically unconventional tragedy is only one of the many contradictions, which in their sum, make this one of the most striking adaptations yet effected...
There are four moments upon which the focus of the story falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...