Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Bessie Gardner du Pont, 85, first wife (1887-1906) of Chemicals Millionaire Alfred I. du Pont, biographer (Du Pont de Nemours, 1933) of the Du Pont clan; at her home near Wilmington, Del...
Strong-willed María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascarán, Marqués de Villaverde, 28, a doctor in the Spanish army...
Leaving the politicians to work out details with his ministers of finance and economy, the president flew to Vina del Mar for a weekend of swimming, tennis, and Brahms recordings at the summer palace. Then, starting the engines of his cinnamon-colored DC-3 himself, he flew back to Santiago...
...proof of his penitence, Alfonso transformed the royal summer palace at Burgos' Las Huelgas del Rey into a cloister administered by the white-robed Order of Cistercian nuns. The cloister, Alfonso decreed, would also be the burial site for the dead of the House of Castile; the first of the royal bodies, that of baby Prince Sancho, was entombed there...
...Del Ruth's old-style direction, in the manner of a fast silent comedy, and Ruth Roman's homegirl charm as the love interest, help Berle make Always Leave Them Laughing a warm, unpretentiously funny comedy...