Word: maja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students from cities as flat as Philadelphia came to Cambridge this year equipped with all the gear to take to the hills. She swelled a delegation which already included New Englanders like Alice Sizer '50, Nina Emerson '50, and Anne Richard '49, all experts and European-born veterans like Maja Weisl '50 of Prague, Czechoslovakia, who took up the sport when she was five...
...lips), but this time dressed in white silk. Confronted with the second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...