Word: dona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine by tending his magnificent flower garden at Santa Comba. It was there, and through the medium of the flowers he loves, that he met the woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar...
...Gordon Thomson--Dona Cook (Radcliffe...
...dictator's amorous capacity is notable, even in the tropic Caribbean. One of Trujillo's friends is bediamonded, aging, Isabel Mayer. Now in her sixties, Dona Isabel is still famed for her parties and cuisine ("Have some more sea food! It's good for men"). Trujillo was at one of her parties when the infamous massacre of the Haitians occurred in 1937. Rumor has it that Dona Isabel had complained that Haitian peasants, sneaking across the border, were stealing her cattle. The Trujillo soldiery was ordered out. They smashed babies' heads against rocks, ripped pregnant women...
...unpublished and heretofore unproduced work is the fourth major joint production of HDC and Idler. Predecessors of "Owen Wingrave" in this respect are "Mashenka," which was produced on Broadway after its staging here and of which the Dramatic Club received many requests for performances in other cities; the dynamic "Dona Rosita"; and last year's hit, "Playboy of the Western World...
...affair is terminated by the sudden arrival of her husband and Lord Rocking ham (who gets his just reward) and, more crucially, by Dona's reawakened sense of duty toward her children. The Lady and the Pirate agree that whereas "women will play at adventure ... for a day and a night . . ." sooner or later "they will make their nest." In a line which appeased the Hays Office and should interest the Legion of Decency, the skipper assures his sweetheart that if she returns to domesticity, "nothing has happened which will make your life a pretense...