Word: maria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces, including Schubert's Ave Maria and Brahms's Cradle Song...
...Virgo Maria." It was finally proved that, without additional expense, the clock simply could not be put anywhere but in its old place. The leftists had a small triumph, however; the Communist workers of a nearby glass factory supplied a clockface free of charge. "After all," said the leftists, "it is the face of the clock that people will see, and then they will think...
...every available craft. The sun was setting in a fresh westerly breeze as the boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing could happen to them...
...Edinburgh registry office, Inverchapel (65) remarried fortyish Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, whom he had first married in 1929 when he was envoy to Chile. His wife was known to her Santiago friends as "Sweet Candy." Inverchapel divorced her in 1945 (for desertion, in 1941, when he was Ambassador to China...
Remarried. Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Inverchapel, first Baron of Loch Eck, 65, Britain's tweedy Ambassador to the U.S.; and Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, fortyish, whom he divorced two years ago; in Edinburgh (see FOREIGN NEWS...