Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alen and Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised. I always felt something like this would happen. He drove like...
Since the paying of bills among whites is something not always done now, II Duce last week troubled himself more about the dusky races on both sides of the Red Sea who insist on payment in the broad silver Maria Theresa dollars. These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe...
...Such coins, considered the only sound money by natives on both sides of the Red Sea, are disparagingly said by bankers to "bear no obligation of redemption." Being worth always exactly the value of the metal they contain, Maria Theresa dollars therefore cannot be devalued by any unscrupulous currency jugglers. With a standard content of 28.0668 grams of silver .8333 fine, the Maria Theresa dollar was worth in U. S. money 19? in January 1933 just before Calvin Coolidgc's death, 26? in May after President Roosevelt took the U. S. dollar off gold, and 53? today after...
...Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting...
Back in London Mr. Savage, bereft of job and money, disappeared forever. Never much of a factor in his wife's accounts of their life, this good Britisher lost what remained of his identity when the former Maria Metten took to pronouncing their name as if it were French. In 1908 Chorus Master Giulio Setti offered her a place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when...