Word: cuernavaca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey, saw her first book, The Painted Pig (Knopf, $2), off the press. For children from five to ten years, The Painted Pig is illustrated with 15 color pictures and is dedicated to Constance, youngest Morrow daughter "who helped me buy a painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking...
...Leaving behind him 'Pancho' and his home in Cuernavaca constitutes a genuine sorrow for Ambassador Morrow in his retirement from Mexico to the political life that confronts him in the Senate. . . . If money could do it Ambassador Morrow would transfer the entire town to the U. S. . . . Cuernavaca, capital of the State of Morelos, is the garden spot of the earth, in. the opinion of the diplomat...
...Ambassador Morrow delights in talking about Cuernavaca. He is boastful only on one subject, or rather a dual one. his Cuernavaca home and 'Pancho.' He becomes completely enwrapped in the subject of his garden in Cuernavaca as he leads the visitor about the old walls that have been rebuilt by Pancho; as he shows with genuine pride this or that plant that be himself has tended; and the swimming pool...
...first modern swimming pool built in Cuernavaca,' the ambassador asserts, adding, 'and Pancho...