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Word: madrazos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punta's owners, Francisco ("Paco") and Jose ("Pepe") Madrazo, are scions of one of the clans that flourished in the days of Porfirio Diaz. They have lived serenely through the social upheaval that started in 1910. Within the 100 miles of fence that shields them from the new world, Don Paco and Don Pepe have saved and cherished much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home of the Brave | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Leocadia Zamora. Author Bowers is the first biographer to discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior, requiring that her portrait by Madrazo be painted over with a nun's habit. Years later it was restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knickerbocker in Spain | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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