Word: maria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parents, at least, the marriage of Maria Hester Monroe was a huge success. That first wedding of a U.S. President's daughter in 1820 was confined so closely to the family that the ceremony was attended by only 42 guests and reported by the Washington press in 34 words. Subsequent White House brides from Elizabeth Tyler in 1842 to "Princess" Alice Roosevelt-who envisaged a "comparatively quiet family affair" and wound up with 1,000 guests in 1906-have sought with diminishing success to elude the tidal wave of publicity that inevitably engulfs a First Family wedding...
...opening and closing his mouth; another who rendered Swanee River by slapping together two bananas; a little old lady who played hoedown fiddle, slipped out her false teeth, and frantically clacked them up and down in time with the music; and, in 1935, a fat twelve-year-old named Maria Kalogeropoulos...
...foremost of which was that the government could confiscate anything it does not like and prosecute the author. And although the regime had not felt the need to use its powers against the generally tame daily press before, fortnight ago it banned a book edited by José Maria Gil Robles, a Catholic politician, which said that Franco should be followed by a liberal regime, preferably a monarchy...
...MARIA DELBUE DE ORTIZ New York City...
...left. Now, the old habits came into it. My own ship's instrument panel is just the opposite, so I banked the plane on the wrong side. It got away from me. In that modern ship I might as well have been trained on Columbus' Santa Maria...