Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portuguese retainer was trying to encourage a kitchen fire with damp wood when the little family arrived. The children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire...
...Hecht intelligently cut costs and also sharpened his effects by hiring eager newcomers and first-rate but not too expensive veterans whose capacity for hard work matched his own. Chief weakness of George Antheil's alert score is the absence of Spectre's traditional music (Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Waltz). Among the film's good points: young Kirov's tormented athleticism; Viola Essen's fresh beauty; the rich, workmanlike performances of Miss Anderson and Mr. Chekhov...
Temporary Embarrassment. In the Azores, the U.S. had another setback. Portugal's Dictator-Premier Salazar had been ready to sign a far-reaching agreement, but premature publicity embarrassed both him and the State Department. Last week Secretary Byrnes announced that the U.S.-built air base on Santa Maria island was being turned back to Portugal for peaceful development. The U.S. got a sop: temporary (18 months) transit rights. The State Department could base a hope on the French adage: "Nothing endures as long as the temporary...
Divorced. By Maria Rasputin Bern, 45, animal-taming daughter of mad, murdered Grigory Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia: Gregory Bern (formerly Bernadsky), 44, electrical engineer; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Nowadays sprawling B.A.'s transport was so old and overburdened that Pedro had to get up an hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...