Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a marriageable young man of rank proper to wed one of King Alfonso's daughters (Beatriz, 20; Maria Christina...
...typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...
...magnetic energy, his romantic appearance. They decided that he was the man to reorganize the Cincinnati Symphony. To Cincinnati he went in 1909, built up a first-rate orchestra (and a baseball team among the players). While there he married Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him a daughter, Sonia Maria Noel. His work as conductor soon attracted the attention of Philadelphians, particularly of the late Andrew Wheeler, blue-blooded secretary of the Orchestra. Wheeler felt that Philadelphia also needed some one young, energetic, pliable...
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 32, author (All Quiet on the Western Front); by Else Jeanne Zamboni Remarque, 37; in Berlin. The decree was granted in January but kept secret by her continuing a member of his household...
Died. Donna Maria Sarto, 81, last surviving sister of the late Pope Pius X; in Rome. In spite of their poverty, she and her late sister adopted two war orphans, performed many an act of kindness for the city's poor. For burying her sister, she gave agnostic Prime Minister Mussolini her holy brother's skull cap. Later she received a small annuity from the Vatican...