Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's sunny Easter afternoon, at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sang America, Ave Maria, My Soul Is Anchored in the Lord for a crowd of 75,000, including Harold LeClair Ickes, Henry Morgenthau, many another Capital bigwig. Singer Anderson had waived her $1,750 fee, nobody paid admission, her program was considerably below her artistic par. This was all because, by last week, the Anderson Affair had become more a matter of politics than of Art or even of Race. After the D. A. R. kept Miss Anderson out of Constitution Hall...
...letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices. The German Chargė d'Affaires protested that the letter was a "gross forgery," and Argentine Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo made a conciliatory reply, although continuing to investigate. Most delighted were British and American traders who believed that the German genius for losing friends would weaken the Nazis' position in the tight, three-cornered fight for Argentine business...
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 (William Primrose and Jesús Maria Sanromá; Victor: 4 sides). One of the most beautiful of contemporary viola sonatas, written in 1922, long before Composer Hindemith became a Kulturbolschewist...
...Ballinger, Texas, Mrs. Maria Garcia, 30, announced that she has gained about three pounds a day every day since Christmas, although she eats a normal amount. Now 400 Ibs., Mrs. Garcia declared that she could not stand on her feet for more than a minute, begged doctors to do something...
...book skimps none of the realities in the life of a master realist. At five, having been carefully deceived as to the manner of birth of his sister Maria, Diego was discovered in the kitchen making an incision into a mouse's belly. At eight, he caused even greater consternation when he and Maria were found playing house with the doll-like corpse of a brother who died in infancy...