Word: arellano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
...ripped the pages from his books as he mastered them, and reaped scholastic honors like rice. At the new University of the Philippines, he drew first honors. In his law examinations he set marks never equaled. He taught law for a year, became secretary to Philippine Chief Justice Cayetano Arellano, and moved into the inevitable political career facing any promising young Philippine lawyer...