Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright spring sunlight the crowds milled about the plaza cheering Perón, who finally appeared on a balcony of the Casa Rosada in company with wife Eva and Minister of Interior Angel C. Borlenghi. Perón plunged into a half-screaming account of the "conspiracy." "Traitors to the country" had plotted his death, he shouted, because "international capitalists desire...
...General George Washington issued many general orders against profanity in the Continental Army, but, according to another officer, on one bad day at Monmouth he himself swore "until the leaves shook on the trees . . . Sir ... he swore like an angel from heaven...
...late Novelist Thomas Wolfe was more popular than ever in Asheville, N.C., the town he described as "Altamont" in Look Homeward, Angel. A group of the townspeople, calling themselves the Wolfe Memorial Association, set out to raise money for the restoration and preservation of "that bloody barn," the old Wolfe boardinghouse...
Died. Juliana Force, 67, autocratic director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, longtime good angel to struggling U.S. artists; after long illness; in Manhattan. As friend and secretary to Sculptress-Art Patroness Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, she began to buy and exhibit promising paintings in 1908, turned the Whitney's annual exhibition into a bellwether of contemporary U.S. painting...
graceful guise Thus sleeping, by an Angel's hand...