Word: maria
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...commands attention. As Sacha Guitry, the French playwright, observed, "You go to La Tour d'Argent to dine. Once there, you look" at the scene. Shirley Temple Black, unable to flag a cab on a rainy day, was conveyed to the restaurant by gallant gendarmes in a Black Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back...
...Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...
Though this affair has been dismissed as a bagatelle by most biographers, the release by Jefferson's descendants in 1944 of 25 letters from Mrs. Cosway established beyond doubt that Tom and Maria had been deeply in love. At their parting, wrote Jefferson, he was "rent into fragments by the force of my grief." The letters were, in Brodie's words, "missives of such ineffable tenderness that they constitute the most remarkable collection of love letters in the history of the American presidency...
With the orchestra arrayed behind a scrim at the back of the stage, Gene Nelson presides over the evening as master of ceremonies and song-and-dance man. Larry Kert is exceptional-especially in Maria, which he sang in the original cast of West Side Story...
...built up, melting the once solid interior rock. Finally, between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, lava broke through the hard outer crust in a great spasm of volcanic activity, possibly forming some new craters and flooding the great low-lying basins to create the moon's maria...