Word: francisca
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...curly grey hair strode into the rotunda. While sightseers gawked, she hopped spryly on to a roped-off platform, sat down on John Trumbull's huge (13 by 18 ft.) Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, which was lying flat there, and started touching up Trumbull's paint. Marie Francisca Kalnoky, a full-fledged, two-castle Hungarian countess who fled Europe in 1949, was busy at her latest job: giving some of the Capitol's historic paintings their first restoration in 80 years...
...like bridge, talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether it was a boy (though by now, the Dutch have got used to matriarchy). Four times it was a girl (Beatrix, now 10; Irene, 9; Margriet Francisca, 5; Maria Christina...
...story, such as it is, is concerned with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...
Queen Wilhelmina, 62, made her third transatlantic air hop, joined Princess Juliana in Ottawa, planned to stay awhile and get acquainted with four-month-old Margriet Francisca, her new granddaughter...
Doing fine in a not-so-grand Ottawa house, a handy two blocks from nursery school, was the all-girl family of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Princess Beatrix, 5, Princess Irene, 3, were learning to ski. Six-week-old Princess Margriet Francisca was turning out to be a model child. "She is very healthy," said her mother. "She is well-trained and doesn't wake us during the night." Modern royalty's family album got a nicely brushed, fluffed, starched, and beribboned domestic portrait...