Word: mistral
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...Gabriela Mistral, greying and 56, is a distinguished Chilean poetess. She is also Chilean consul at Petropolis, the summer capital of Brazil...
Weary of her sinecure. Poetess Mistral last week applied for a transfer to California. Two days later she had callers-the tall Swedish Minister, Ragnar Kumlin, and his elegant wife. Kumlin crossed Gabriela's tiny room and placed a bouquet of pink roses at her feet...
Warmed by the sun, cooled by the fierce, antiseptic mistral, favored by commerce and the sea, the land had bred a human race tolerant and amused. Now the Provencals joined in with the invaders to drive the German from their land. Along the shore among groves of cork oak, on the hills where pines tinged the air with the clean smell of resin, Frenchmen fought alongside the swiftly advancing troops of Major General Alexander M. (for McCarrell) Patch, U.S. commander of the Allied Seventh Army...
...Among them: The Untamed, The Iron Trail, Six Golden Angels, Mistral...
...four nuns. Rescued passengers grimly described how those who had obeyed orders and gone to the saloon were trapped and burned, how a mother, clothes afire, leaped overboard, how a lifeboat was swamped by the seas. Some in scant night clothes died of exposure to icy spray and mistral...