Word: leonora
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...other belongings, mindful of the fact that Arbenz and his top henchmen drew $1,000,000 in cash from the government-operated Agrarian Bank a few days before he fell.* He watched stonily while marveling examiners counted out his wife's 42 pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still dark when he landed in Mexico City, the most important refugee to reach there since Leon Trotsky in 1937. His only greeter, aside from reporters and plainclothesmen, was Mexico...
...staged at the Lower California ranch, pretty Hollywood companions were also near at hand. In the end, the pace grew so dizzy that the President became involved in a notable indiscretion. Just after his retirement from office, he took off from his Lower California hideaway with a party including Leonora Amar, his Brazilian actress friend, for a week in Paris that was fully reported in Mexico, and, some Mexicans say, grievously dented his political influence...
...Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger manifest, it was that of Alemán's great and enduring friend, Brazilian Actress Leonora Amar, whom he had raised to stardom in Mexican films (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Handsome Miguel's friendship with the sultry Leonora was well known in Mexico, but previously both the President and the gossip had been discreet...
...that time, Mr. Wilder had decided that Thornton should spend his summers working on a farm. Thornton worked-after his fashion. He fed the pigs, dreamily pitched the hay, declaimed "to the cows in the stanchions the judge's speech from Barrie's The Legend of Leonora...
...Director Herbert Graf took scissors to the libretto and score, and one whole scene and parts of another (totaling about half an hour of music) finally rested on the cutting-room floor. But the essential story remained. Don Alvaro, poor fellow, still accidentally kills his sweetheart's father, Leonora still takes refuge in a monastery, and "the force of destiny" still brings Don Alvaro, Leonora and her avenging brother together for a bloody but musically magnificent finale...