Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small town in Yugoslavia there lived a man named Peter. He read many books, dabbled in politics and married a girl named Maria...
Arabian Nights (Universal) would be just another oldtime sheik picture but for 1) sleek Maria Montez, 2) Technicolor. The new year will be Technicolor's year, and in Technicolor Miss Montez will help make it happy...
...Tuckers are a Virginia dynasty. The Bishop's grandfather escaped to Canada at the end of the Civil War when the Union put a price of $100,000 on his head. The Bishop's father married Maria Washington, daughter of Mount Vernon's last private owner, great-grandniece of George Washington. He begat 13 children, was the last Confederate soldier to sit in the Episcopal House of Bishops. Two sons have followed him there-Henry St. George and Bishop Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr. of Ohio. Two other sons are U.S. rectors and two more missionaries in China...
...Maria Jackson is frail and wrinkly now, and at 80 a great-grandmother. She lives in the family homestead on the fringes of Portland's business section with a cook, a companion, a chauffeur, a Pekingese named Charlie...
Last summer President Roosevelt eyed the old Oregon's 10,300 tons of metal, decreed it should be demolished for scrap. Had he ordered the wrecking of the eleven-story pile of granite, ink and eloquence that is the Journal itself, Maria Jackson would hardly have been more shocked. She complained some, but being patriotic she did not resist...