Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what they appear. During the past six months Count Csáky made frequent trips to Germany which were interpreted as meaning that Hungary was drawing closer to Germany. Last week the suave, ambitious, reckless, 45-year-old Count's engagement to beautiful, 28-year-old Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky was announced. Those trips to Germany, it appeared, were just to court the pretty lady at her family castle near Graz...
Died. Dr. William Wallace Whitelock, 70, newspaperman, author, educator, Spanish-American war hero (he headed a party that rescued Admiral Cervera from the wrecked Spanish flagship Maria Tere a); after a brief illness; in Manhattan...
Puccini: Tosco (Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Reale of Rome, Oliviero de Fabritiis conducting, with Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 28 sides). Puccini's great operatic melodrama recorded complete by as lusty a group of Italian songbirds as can be found today...
...meeting, President Getulio Vargas of Brazil declaimed that the Americas had as much right to establish a peace zone as European nations had to proclaim a war zone. This fine thought was not followed by any practical suggestions. In Buenos Aires, Argentina's Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo suggested that if Great Britain and France would agree to send no more warships into the safety zone, it might be possible to get Germany to promise the same thing. Nobody else was so hopeful. It seemed that the Americas' neutrality belt was likely to continue as theory...
...summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera house, smokes all the cigars he wants to, drinks his aqvavit neat. His brown-eyed, Bavarian-born wife Kleinchen (real name Maria Hacker), who could almost be tucked into one of the pockets of his massive vest, keeps him well fed and amused. One of the things about her that amuses him most is the way they met. Originally a cinema actress with the old German UFA films, Frau Melchior landed...