Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph. It had financed Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland...
...Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, were a new political party, the Movimento Unionista Italiano (Italian Unionist Movement). Its emblem was the Stars & Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map. The word spread through the fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves of southern Italy and Sicily, where almost every ragged family has a relative in the U.S. In last month's municipal elections, the Unionists won four local governments, elected a total of 227 aldermen. Last week jubilant Paladino announced that his followers now numbered 875,000 and that his party would run a full slate...
...soon as my car came to a full stop on Innsbruck's famed Maria Theresien-strasse, a half dozen Tyroleans gathered around. A smartly dressed woman exclaimed: "Americans! It is good to see you back. We've missed your good coffee and candy and cigarets...
...humor and gaiety paradoxically give place to sadness when Schoenberner describes his career with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small...
...Diligenti Quintuplets of Argentina-Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, María Cristina, and Franco-posed for photographers and looked like a fine quiver-full for Papa. Their dresses and ribbons looked like the same they wore for their second-birthday picture last July. But María Fernanda now asserted herself -with a spit curl...