Word: carmencita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardened and ambitious, in 1923 he married Carmen Polo, daughter of a wealthy Oviedo merchant, and His Majesty King Alfonso sent a personal representative to the wedding. They have one daughter Carmencita, now 10, who busies herself with well-photographed good works around Burgos. Strange for a Spanish officer, he is said neither to drink nor smoke. Odder still, he is pictured as very much the family man. A typical dictator has no time for, and little interest in, family life...
...Caudillo himself is comfortably established in the Bishop of Salamanca's palace opposite the west front of the Cathedral. Here he lives with his handsome wife Carmen, whom he married eleven years ago while on duty in Oviedo, and his daughter Carmencita, who is two years younger than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron...
...this confraternity of shaving mugs came weekly the "Gazette" to echo the sins of the city. Jaws moved a little faster as men read of Carmencita's fateful night at Sherry's. And not only the villagers, but Manhattan's men-about-town turned to its pink pages to keep abreast of the tide...