Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palace at Bucharest, King Carol of Rumania, hearing that the weather had turned foul, anxiously wirelessed Commander Gika Dimutriscu of his destroyer Regina Maria (named after his mother, Queen Marie). Aboard the Regina Maria was his son, Crown Prince Mihai, bound for Athens and the wedding of Crown Prince Paul of Greece (see p. 26), where his mother, divorced Queen Helen, was waiting...
...veiled in a heavy snowstorm and cut off by temporary failure of her radio the Regina Maria was unmercifully buffeted. Two feet of water flooded the stateroom of the Crown Prince, and the violent wind snapped off one of the destroyer's masts., For 36 hours the Regina Maria bucked and plunged, water even in her engine room, spray frozen on her. Her crew got neither food nor sleep. "Can't I do something to help?" asked the nauseated Crown Prince...
...Curtiss-Wright 19R, piloted by the nation's Army Air Commander Major Frank Felix Miranda, was named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus. The three Cuban planes, all new single-motored, 285-h. p. Stinson "Reliants," were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily they took off. visited in turn the nearby Indies, Venezuela, Brazil, passed over Paraguay to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador...
...light planes as they tried to rise above the 10,000-ft. peaks around them. They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side by side in the bottom of a shallow creek. On fire, the Nina struggled a few seconds, crashed a few hundred yards from its companions. All seven occupants of the three planes were instantly killed, those in the Nina burned beyond recognition...
...outstanding performances," this time ducking behind an alphabetical redan: Harry Baur in The Golem, Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion, Charles Boyer in Conquest, Nikolai Cherkassov in Baltic Deputy, Jackie Cooper in Boy of the Streets, Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently accorded a niche in Hollywood's Hall...