Word: protectress
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...duty joins inclination to make her marry Alessaudro, a very handsome Indian played by Don Ameche with none of the traditional "Ugh". In the course of a very persecuted life Alessandro gets shot to death. But just when divine justice is being reproachfully questioned by Ramona's homely protectress, along comes Filipe (Kent Taylor), Ramona's other lover, and promises to be a satisfactory compensation. If these broad outlines leave you cold, you may still be affected by the sight of John Carradine, that lean, relentless fiend from "The Prisoner of Shark's Island", dragging along the futilely resisting Ramona...
...Majesty's ancestress, the Sun Goddess, who is supposed to be the constant celestial Protectress of the Empire, can look into the hearts of wicked Japanese and warn good Japanese of their foul intentions, Prince Saionji inevitably would be one of the first to be warned. Some secret source, human or divine, tipped off Japan's Exalted Octogenarian. From his rustic villa at Okitsu in a speeding motor car Prince Saionji raced through night and snow to nearby Shizuoka where he was guarded by 100 police who kept the secret from murderous mustards...
...thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going together to the Island of Majorca where Chopin almost died of his first tuberculous attack. His mistress was his nurse for eight years. Then she tired and wrote Lucrezia Floriani, in which she appears as a motherly protectress and Chopin as an exquisite who was often jealous and rude. The break was Chopin's destruction. With Sand he had done his greatest work, courageously defying disease. Without her he was lost in body and spirit. Two years after she deserted him he was too weak to walk alone...
...hill; the image became an object of veneration, was named Guadalupe after the famed Spanish shrine. In the 17th Century the validity of the apparition was accorded Papal recognition; in the 18th Century the Virgin Mary was by a Papal Bull declared Mexico's Patroness and Protectress. Religious enthusiasm was unbounded and Dec. 12 was set apart forever as a clay for holy fiestas...
...August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this was prudent for France is the avowed protectress of Poland, and never was such protection more needed than last week, when Russo-Polish strife hung in the air. Shelved. The Council postponed consideration of the Albania-Jugoslavia dispute (TIME, June 6), and delayed to the September League Assembly all actions upon the nearly barren report of the Preparatory...