Word: evita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the facile ease of a lyceum lecturer, Evita Perón delved into the ancient authors. Never before had she displayed such erudition; never before had her followers heard quotes from the great batted about so airily...
...three speeches last week Evita quoted Napoleon once and Alexander the Great twice; she referred glibly to such obscure personages as Parmenio and Perdiccas (two of Alexander's generals), then casually brought Diogenes into...
...first lady turned to a delegation which had brought a gift to her Social Aid Foundation: "After Alexander had shared all his riches and honors among his generals, Perdiccas asked him: 'What are you going to keep for yourself?' Alexander replied: 'Only my hope.'" Said Evita, with becoming modesty: "Like Alexander, I want to keep for myself nothing but a hope...
...supported most of the nation's hospitals, homes for the aged and orphan asylums. But when the Peróns came to power, Argentine charity became a political matter and a virtual monopoly of the First Lady. The high-born oligarcas of the Beneficencia pointedly refrained from inviting Evita to become their honorary president; Evita retaliated by virtually running them out of business...
...years ago Agusti sold his favorite paper, Buenos Aires' evening Noticias Grádficas, to Evita for 6,000,000 pesos (then $1,800,000); he remained courteously mum when only 300,000 pesos of the price was actually paid. This tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...