Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, Hanford MacNider of Iowa; Hoover's Ambassador to Italy, Henry Prather Fletcher; Robert Maynard Hutchins, precocious president of the University of Chicago; John L. Lewis, still ambitious to be all labor's boss (see p. 14); ex-Vice President Charles Gates Dawes ("Hell'n Maria"); Philadelphia Industrialist Joseph Henry Scattergood, Quaker; and an oldtime opera star, Soprano Geraldine Farrar, now 59, in her youth a favorite of Germany's Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (she was once called "The Darling of the Heir...
...Julian Maria Gómez, a Spanish citizen who lives in El Paso and owns a distillery in Juárez, Mexico, donated 38,000 whiskey bottle caps...
...RAINER MARIA RILKE - E. M. Butler -Macmillan...
...Rainer Maria Rilke could serve as a symbol of the best and worst meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...
...split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they danced together until a few weeks ago. Now Veteran Tony, 41, has a new dancing partner, Sally Craven, whom he describes as "the kind of girl you want to . . . cuddle." Maria Farkas asked a California court to set aside the divorce she got from Director Alexander Korda twelve years ago. Korda married Merle Oberon nine years later, is still married to her. His ex-wife stated she really didn't want the divorce, went right on living with Korda till...