Word: elizabeth
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While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
...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 of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently...
...mere fraternity, the G.O.A.A.A. was formed by a German-born contralto named Elizabeth Hoeppel, onetime of the Chicago opera, who among other things wanted the U. S. Government to provide more relief for jobless singers. Contralto Hoeppel's union offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also...
Grandson of the powerful Duke of Northumberland (beheaded 15 months before Philip's birth), nephew of the Earl of Leicester (rumored lover of Queen Elizabeth), godson of Philip of Spain, Sir Philip Sidney minimized his royal connections by taking as motto: Hardly do I call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash...
...Astrophel and Stella were addressed to a beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...