Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easeful Death. One night in 1820, Keats and Severn sailed for Italy on the 130-ton barque Maria Crowther. Keats was dying...
...Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from jail last December, ever since had been plotting the Dictator's overthrow...
...plot: hefty Jon Hall is about to marry a lissome South Sea Islander (Maria Montez) when she is abducted by the Cobra People, a tribe of fanatic snake-worshippers, and taken to Cobra Island, whence few escape. Mr. Hall follows, learns that his fiancee's twin sister (Maria Montez) an evil High Priestess, has got the extras so hornswoggled by her snake dance that they march straight into the mouth of an active volcano. When Hall asks Maria's grandmother, the Island's powerless Queen, why her subjects act that way, he is told: "She appeals...
...bleak world living on a dry fodder of deathly recollections - little Cousin Bessie (died, aged eight, of a sur feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them away from here." Maria's husband spent most of his time in bed, gloomily...
...correspondents find nothing wrong with Perón personally. He is well-mannered, well-dressed without being particularly stiff or foppish. He can tell a good joke, enjoy a joke at his own expense. A widower, he has a pretty, 17-year-old daughter, Maria Inez. He likes to cook, to fish, to hunt, and to be with a charming movie star named Eva Duarte. An extremely hard worker, he admires Americans because they work hard. At home in drawing rooms, he is equally at ease with workingmen...