Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Maria Jeritza, 60, full-fashioned, bubbly opera star of the '20s; and Irving Peter Seery, 57, Newark umbrella-maker and opera-lover; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...little about Communism, less about Russia. With help from an unexpected quarter, they stirred Up anticlericalism in answer to the Church's anti-Communist campaign. But above all, the Communists talked about the high cost of living. In Rome's working class street, Via Gesú e Maria, a Communist tailor kept his shop open late at night. "The government was pledged to combat inflation," he told neighbors, "yet artichokes cost 70 lire each-artichokes alia Romano, have become artichokes alia signorile [of the rich...
...good taking the umbrella to him," mused Don Francesco, "he's quite insensitive to its taps." Counting on his fingers, he said: "There's him, there's his wife Maria, his daughter. Think of it, three votes for the Communists. What a disgrace for all of us." Then he brightened. He had hit on a scheme. He knew that raven-locked Maria Conti, the only woman in Riofreddo who wore modern clothes, hated the drudgery of housework: she was a career woman at heart. Swinging his green umbrella. Father Francesco promptly departed to make Maria Conti head...
...this happy moment a wild shout was heard at the back of the barn. The audience turned to see allegory brought up to date. Brandishing a long broom, Maria Conti rushed in behind her Communist husband. "If you think you can keep me just listening to your ideas when it's my duty to occupy an important official post," she shouted, "you'll have to buy me a new broom...
...turned out, possession of this incalculable hope brought only bewilderment, suffering, terror and tragedy to the fisherman and his wife (Maria Elena Marques) and to their infant son. Dealers tried to deceive them; ruffians tried to corrupt and divide them. The poor fisherman had to kill to defend his treasure and his own life. In consequence, the little family was forced into always more desperate flight through swamps and desolate country. The woman knew almost from the outset that tragedy was an inevitable part of such hope as theirs. The man had much to learn before he, too, was ready...