Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Fine Arts, which Rivera considers stifling. Triumvir Sequeiros proclaimed Rivera's show unnecessary and based on an idea that was "old and a failure." Sixty-one-year-old Triumvir Orozco, invited to exhibit with the youngsters, flatly refused. The atmosphere burned with reports, discussions, tempestades. Painter Maria Izquierdo pronounced all three leaders publicity hounds...
...Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece (aunt by marriage of King George II), were war refugees. A few had journeyed...
...front of the Town Hall other little girls were chattering. There was Christl. But she wasn't Christl anymore-now she was Claudette. There was Bernadette, whose brother had run off to the Maquis. And there was Maria Pia, who could scarcely speak French at all because, when the Germans came, she had been only four...
Sister Elizabeth asked Maria Pia and Bernadette to open the windows. From the distant Rhine rolled the thunder of guns. Suddenly, much more loudly, came the roar of planes. Eyes widened in panic, voices shrilled: "Flugzeuge! Flugzeuge!" (Airplanes! Airplanes!). The little girls had remembered fear...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...