Word: maras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-seller in 1943, has made Daisy Kenyan out of these fascinatingly unhappy people and their jittery world of New York, Washington, Connecticut, and Nantucket. At 32, Daisy is a beautiful, successful, emancipated magazine illustrator. For eight years her lover has been shrewd, rugged Dan O'Mara. Then she meets and marries high-strung magazine editor Peter Lapham...
They were unusual children: their arms reached to their ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they could speak in pantomime, and De Ferrari could understand them...
Monsignor de Ferrari packed the pair on a raft, started off down river with them and several other jungle children for his mission school. In the night, the Kirikas leapt upon a sleeping child. An awakened missionary collared them, saw that támara thorns were in their hands. Thereafter, the Kirikas were bound to the raft with stout ropes...
...Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley. Then he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater, and a wealthy family named O'Mara was in the audience. The O'Maras sent their young find to Dublin to study under Dr. Vincent O'Brien, 74-year-old discoverer of McCormack...
...they came into Mara, and they, could not drink the waters of Mara, because they were bitter...