Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cairo. Leader of Fuad's Cabinet for two short ministries in the 20s, again from 1934-36, taciturn Nessim Pasha was more successful as a business man than as a politician. After his last resignation his life was occupied by making & breaking engagements to marry 17-year-old Maria Huebner, a Viennese hotel keeper's daughter...
...carried on world famed affairs with Actresses Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt, Dancers Ida Rubinstein and Isadora Duncan, other Edwardian beauties. In 1909 his brutally frank description of his intimacies with Duse sent her into a twelve-year retirement. During this period he had also married an Italian, Donna Maria Hardouin, who soon after left him for Paris...
...Engaged. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime operatic Soprano Alma Gluck, half-sister of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; to Ogden Goelet, 30, once-divorced Newport & Manhattan socialite...
...most brilliant example of this modern school of choral music, which depends upon striking rhythm and purity of line for its effect, is Stravinsky's "Ave Maria." Steady, drum-like beat and sombre harmonies remind one of a Gregorian chant. In its simplicity lies its greatness...
Finally rescue ships found the Regina Maria, towed her back to the great Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...