Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...
Gretchaninoff: Songs (Maria Kurinko, soprano; Victor; 6 sides). Eleven of the venerable Russian's most telling songs, plus one of his best credos, sung with warm-voiced artistry by a Russian noted for her Gretchaninoff, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky. Composer at the piano...
...sailed 25,000 miles under Columbus' command. Pinta was such a smart sailer that "Columbus became annoyed at a habit of Captain Pinzon in pressing on ahead when land was expected, in order to gain the reward." Morison guesses that she was about 75 feet long. Santa Maria was "somewhat" but "not very much" bigger than the others, drew "not more than 6½ feet aft when loaded." But Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria were "well built, well rigged, well equipped and well manned. ..." Wrote Columbus: "Muy aptos para un semejante fecho-well suited for such an enterprise." Writes...
...storm named Maria...
Chaser. In Detroit, a judge gave a divorce to Mrs. Maria Millis, 91, who complained that her 73-year-old husband was a woman-chaser...