Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio de Aguirre...
Born. To Cinemactress Mary Astor Hawks Thorpe del Campo, 33, and Manuel del Campo, 27: a son; her second child, his first; in Hollywood. Weight...
Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany...
Died. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, 67, President of Cuba for 24 days following Dictator Machado's flight in 1933; after long illness, and just a few hours before his predecessor in office: in Havana...
...although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because of any weakness in his performance; and the minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis Barrault)--are skillfully portrayed. Only on one occasion, when the two principal women engage in that lush sentimentality so often employed to resolve a triangle plot, does the pace become slow; and the ending, tragic and impelling in the vein of the whole...