Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely the world did. And without a doubt, the triumphal tour of Argentina's beryllium-bright First Lady to the musty corners of the Old World had its miraculous aspects. For sleek, 28-year-old Doña María Eva Duarte de Perón was no ordinary tourist. There was scarcely a capital where her iridescent progress had not been reported inch by inch, scarcely a newspaper from the Times of London to New York's Daily Worker which did not wonder out loud over the significance of the trip...
...Care." Eva herself was an old story by now, but this latest romp had given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin...
...spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...
...drinks for the first Brazilian President to visit his country since Getulio Vargas went to B.A. in 1935. Latin oratory was spilled. When the two Presidents yanked a string to unveil a commemorative plaque, up flew 1,500 Brazilian pigeons painted in the two countries' national colors. For Eva Duarte de Perón, Dutra had a whopping aquamarine brooch encrusted with diamonds...
From Madrid, the correspondent of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron's newspaper, Democraticia, cabled an alluring preview. The reception for Argentina's First Lady, when she came to get the Order of Isabel La Catolica* from Dictator Francisco Franco, would be "the most brilliant ever organized for a foreign guest...