Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast at Asbury Park, Mrs. Maria Monez Strohmeier ("Mrs. Philadelphia"), a 21-year-old blonde with green eyes, was crowned "Mrs. America." This entitled her to a fur coat, furniture, a dishwasher, laundry machine, luggage, and diaper service for any future children. Mrs. America was more nearly standard size...
...talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether it was a boy (though by now, the Dutch have got used to matriarchy). Four times it was a girl (Beatrix, now 10; Irene, 9; Margriet Francisca, 5; Maria Christina...
...clock it was clear that Maria was not going to die. Those who had lost their bets-their horses and mules and pieces of land to skeptics and Communists-cursed their luck as they turned away to begin the journey home...
Next day the village doctor came to visit Maria, followed by the village priest. Both came away tight-lipped and silent. Later Maria herself appeared in her garden. Pale and exhausted, she walked in the hot sunlight among the fragrant heavy grapevines and shining oleander bushes. She walked slowly, lost in meditation, as if she no longer knew where...
...Miracle." That night, under a starlit sky, the crowds shuffled nervously about the gate of Maria's house. She appeared to them on her balcony. She wanted to die, she said, in the presence of the faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice...