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Word: carmencita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid, Carmencita Franco, gently curved daughter of the well-rounded Generalissimo, let it be known unofficially that she was keeping company with Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu, that they would probably announce their engagement officially in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen and daughter Carmencita (now 19). His most frequent prayer is: "Lord who entrusted Spain to my hand, do not deny me the grace of handing you back a Spain which is truly Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Embarrassing Fact | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Carmencita Franco, only daughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, officially discarded childhood on her 18th birthday, unveiled her Spanish-style beauty (see cut) at a debutante ball in Madrid's El Pardo palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Horizons | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Madrid. He appears at public functions surrounded by an entourage of aides and has a lordly way of refusing to see foreign ambassadors in person. Madrid gossips have long whispered that Franco dreams of founding a dynasty of his own. He might, they murmur, marry off his young daughter, Carmencita, to the Duke of Veragua, scion of a famous bull-raising family and descendant of Christopher Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Man in a Sweat | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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