Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many in the throng last week carried shirts nailed to poles, symbols of the descamisados or shirtless ones, as Perón affectionately calls the workers. Others waved placards depicting Perón and First Lady Eva. Peddlers hawked razor blades and other trinkets trademarked descami-sada. The peddlers knew it was good business...
Died. Gregorio Martinez Sierra, 66, prolific Spanish novelist-playwright, best known abroad for his Cradle Song (Eva Le Gallienne starred in it during the 1926-27 Broadway season); of cancer; in Madrid, 15 days after ending more than a decade of self-imposed exile...
Died. Richard Le Gallienne, 81, top-ranking translator of romantic French verse, tireless romantic poet (Lonely Dancer, The Junk-Man and Other Poems'), father of Actress Eva Le Gallienne in Mentone, France...
...Circulo Militar, the Argentine Army officers' club in B.A., is stiff and dignified enough to be mistaken for the Foreign Office on the other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that...
...bunkermates weren't on the side of history's angel. During the night of April 27-28, "Hitler called his court around him, and in this macabre conclave all rehearsed their plans for suicide." Only SS General Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law, declined: "He had not secured his adoption into the family in order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul...