Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music has long been used in the psychiatric wards of Bellevue and Johns Hopkins Hospitals with remarkable, if temporary, success. Schubert's Ave Maria will quiet raging maniacs, claims Dr. Podolsky, and Beethoven's Egmont Overture has cheered many a victim of melancholia. A champion of pure music, Dr. Podolsky finds small medical virtue in swing, warns psychiatrists off Wagner "warhorses" and "severely intellectual modern music," urges them to add Chopin and Mozart to their musical pharmacopoeia...
Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon -under the Loyalists' own terms-become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact. On their nation's art Rebel and Loyalist had agreed...
Seen off at Paris by José Maria Quiñones de LeÓn, unofficial agent of Rebel Spain in France and longtime Ambassador to France of King Alfonso XIII, M. Berard would say only that he was going to Burgos to "settle some questions with good neighbors." Obviously referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement trips, he pointed slyly to an umbrella he was carrying, called it "standard equipment on the kind of trip I am making...
Spain Picasso was born in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, 57 years ago last October 25, of a Basque drawing teacher named Blasco Ruiz and an Italian mother Maria Picasso. By the Spanish order of patronymics his name was Pablo Picasso y Ruiz, and he so signed his earliest pictures...
CHATHAM, Mass.--The Holland-American liner Veendam and the American Scantic liner Scanmail radioed the radiomarine station here at 7:50 p.m. tonight that they had not picked up survivors of the British freighter Maria de Larrinaga...