Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...messenger said he had an important letter to deliver by hand. He was ushered into the little white parish house beside Buenos Aires' church of Corpus Domini. In the pastor's study, tall, ruddy-faced Jose Maria Dunphy, 42, tore open the handsomely embossed envelope. The letter, signed by a secretary of Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, was curt and final. Father Dunphy was relieved of his parish duties, effective at once. "May God help you," the last line read...
Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
Married. Harry Amos Bullis, 58, chairman of the board of General Mills, Inc.; and Polish Countess Maria Smorczewska, 54, who was put into a Nazi concentration camp during the war for underground activities; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1947), she for the third; in Minneapolis...
Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
...elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...