Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Cattleman Samuel A. Maverick* (1803-70), had long since become a recognized part of the American language. But as a proper name, it had gradually dropped out of the nation's ears since fire-bright Maury Maverick, New Deal Congressman (1935-38) and ex-mayor of San Antonio, became a political has-been. Last week, by winning a Democratic primary race for the Texas legislature, his son flicked the dust off the old name. At 29, Maury Jr., an ex-Marine officer, was verbally a mere ghost of his father; he even turned the other cheek when...
...article, "Hangman's End," reference is made to Master Sergeant John C. Woods "of San Antonio...
Sergeant Woods was born in Wichita, Kans. . . . After he was assigned [as official U.S. hangman in postwar Germany], he was afraid his wife might worry about his safety. As a result, he listed his address as San Antonio in the hope that . . . she would not identify him as an executioner. [And] Mrs. Woods did not learn of her husband's activities until after the hangings at Nürnberg prison...
...Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (1477-1549) has been called both a great artist and a hack imitator. Pope Leo X made him a Cavalier of the Order of Christ; Art Historian Vasari, also a contemporary, described him simply as "a beast." He was also known as "The Sodomite," which pleased him; Bazzi signed his letters "Il Sodoma"-the name he is known by today...
Most of the artists threw Verzocchi's bricks into an obscure corner, but some, e.g., Massimo Campigli in his subtly lyrical The Architrave, managed to get a whole stack of them into their compositions. Antonio Donghi, whose meticulously realistic painting of a peasant woman rowing a boatload of faggots was one of the most popular in the show, had floated his brick miraculously on water...