Word: juana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent men in the government will die, and two great plagues will sweep the world." A couple of women hastily crossed themselves...
Fabian. In Lima, Peru, spry, 100-year-old Juana Rosa Arnaiz explained her secret of longevity: "I never hurry, am late for everything. I was breast-fed until eight years...
...Jesse Grant refused to attend the dedication of his father's tomb in New York until the city paid his and his family's round-trip expenses from Tia Juana...
Soon after, hard times came; Juan lost his property and died, leaving Juana and the children in poverty. Like most landholders, no matter how small, Juan had been a member of Argentina's Conservative Party. But after his death, his rich friends in the party had little time for Juan's five orphans or their mother. For help, Juana was forced to turn to a local politician of the Radical Party...
Cinderella. Eva may have remembered in later years how he helped the family move to the larger town of Junin, where he got the eldest girl, Elisa, a job in the postoffice. With Elisa's pay, Doña Juana managed to make ends meet. In time she established herself as a respectable boardinghouse keeper, and one by one she set about marrying off her daughters to the star boarders. The first two were soon settled, but thin, dark, energetic little Eva had other ideas. Movie magazines were full of Cinderella success stories, and there was a girl down...