Word: mariquita
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...outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Mariquita and Jaime were natural Loyalists. Their mother favored Franco. She made no attempt to reach the children, even when they fled Franco's approach, first to Chile and then to Argentina...
...Mariquita is a daughter of the late great Spanish poet and novelist, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, who died five years ago at the age of 67, a stoical man who once smoked a cigaret while his right arm was amputated. Separated years ago from Mariquita's mother, Actress Josefina Blanco, he brought up two of their children -Mariquita and her brother Jaime - and instilled in them his own libertarian ideas...
...Buenos Aires sanatorium last week things began to look up for darkly pretty, tuberculous, 22-year-old María Beatriz ("Mariquita") del Valle-Inclán. Many newspaper-reading Argentines were happy for her. It seemed at last that she might be saved both from tuberculosis and from the vengeance of Spain's Francisco Franco -which extends even to sick young girls...
After the war Franco suppressed the books of Ramon del Valle-Inclán. But almost simultaneously an edition of his works was brought out by an Argentine publisher, sold heavily throughout South America. Royalties were sent to the author's widow and children. Tuberculous Mariquita used hers to enter a sanatorium near Molinari in the Argentine uplands...
...arrival of the royalties in Spain reminded Mariquita's mother of the girl's existence. She sued to get Mariquita and Mariquita's royalties back to Spain, although there the invalid girl would certainly have faced a concentration camp or worse. Basis of the suit was a Spanish law that parents have custody of their children until they are of age (23 in Spain...