Word: mata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three hundred sealed collections that may not be opened for many years. Among them: a trunk containing the records of a woman spy known only by number, but conjectured to be Mata Hari...
Speaking before a capacity crowd in Adams House Junior Common Room last evening, Dr. Caelos Garcia Mata of the Argentine Embassy urged increased cooperation between the United States and Argentina in the form of a compromise on the importation of Argentina beef...
...Mata pointed out that the United States does not permit Argentine beef to compete with American sales, and that the consequent high price of beef deprives many, of the lower income groups of an important food. Importation of Argentine beef would lower the price level, he maintained, but in return the Argentine would buy American machinery and automobiles...
Second feature, British National Films' "Blackout," is an exciting, improbable yarn full of Nazi spics and modern Mata Haris. This bit of propaganda carries all the suspense of Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," but it loses a good bit of punch by splitting the male lead amongst Conrad Veidt, the Union Jack, and Denmark's national anthem...
...herself, she tells the following: Born in Germany, Else LaRoe did Red Cross work during World War I at Lucerne, and there she met famed Spy Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod), who, she recalls, had a perfect posture, a walk as slinky as a stripteaser's. Mata Hari was much interested in the surgery being done on a young French soldier whose nose had been mutilated. Else LaRoe watched the operation, too, and her interest in plastic surgery dawned. She went to Heidelberg's medical school, started on general surgery interspersed with birth-control work in Russia...