Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...language, watched the people instead of the politicians. Young Spaniard Jose Perdriga found Cuba rather puzzling. He had a job in a U. S.-owned mine and did it satisfactorily, though his simple tastes would have attracted him to farming. All he wanted for the immediate future was Maria, daughter of fat Marco Sanclemente, who ran the company canteen. Marco was a politico in a small way and tried to shape his future son-in-law into one. But again, though Jose made a success that surprised himself in his only venture among the firecrackers of Cuban politics...
...satisfactorily, but still he did not like it. When he got a chance to buy a farm and settle down once more he did it. Senor Wilson and Jose's other forward-looking friends could not understand it; but at last Jose was happy. He flattered Maria by marrying her. Meanwhile Father-in-law Marco had been rising in the politico world; now he began to use his new-found power to plague his cast-off family and especially Jose. Jose found himself evicted from his farm; he moved elsewhere; the same thing threatened again. But then Senor Wilson...
...Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost too many of them; one gains no very precise picture of any one, or of the whole; one is befuddled...
Alfonso XIII's father, Alfonso XII, was married to his pretty cousin Maria de las Mercedes de Montpensier only six months before she died. Almost immediately after he listened to the advice of his ministers and married the Habsburg archduchess Maria Christina, and to console himself entered into a liaison with the singer...
...Santiago (Chile), Dr. Carlos Charlin; Guayaquil, Dr. Juan F. Rubio; Mexico City, Drs. Rafael Silva, Juan Luis Torroella; Havana, Drs. Francisco Maria Fernandez, Horacio Ferrer...