Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened so often. Gradually father, mother, sons, see their world wavering around them, its old, familiar outlines dissolving into the crazy settings for a hideous fairy tale. Freya finds a prince charming in her friend Martin (James Stewart), a fairy godmother in his gentle old peasant mother (Maria Ouspenskaya). But when the time comes for a white charger, all prince and godmother can furnish is a pair of skis...
...Married. Maria-Christina-Teresa-Alexandra-Guadelupe-Maria de la ConcepciÓn Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 28, Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of ex-King Alfonso; and Count Enrico Marone, wealthy (Cinzano vermouth) Italian: in Rome...
...India, whither she had gone to form "a centre of scientific researches in what is commonly known as education," Signorina Maria Montessori, 69, pioneer woman educator and founder of the famed Montessori (progressive kindergarten) method, was interned as an enemy alien. Mohandas K. Gandhi asked for her release, guaranteed "her good conduct...
Thumbprints. The third Messiah is no fable; he struggles with fact. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most devoted, most profoundly endowed religious artists whom this century has produced. As such he was, for his generation, one of the focuses of human consciousness. Of what happens to a bearer of such consciousness in time of actual war, this volume of letters is a direct record...
...Prinney," as the Prince was called, had a spoiled passion for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert (once, when near death from nerves, hangovers and bloodletting, he wrote a soulful will in her favor), and a funning relationship with catty Lady Jersey. It amused Lady Jersey to put Epsom salts in Caroline's food during the royal honeymoon. After their separation, the Prince indulged his hatred of Caroline by keeping her from their child, Charlotte. Caroline proceeded to mother every unattached infant she could lay her hands on, adopting one "Willikins" who turned out half-witted. In fits of raffish...