Word: senhora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Album. This week, Aranha was enjoying his pleasantly tumultuous home (Senhora Aranha never knows how many to expect to dinner) on one of the precipitous lavender hills of his favorite city. "Man did much for New York," he says, "God did much for Rio." He chattered with his two sons, Oswaldo Jr., 26, and Euclides, 27, and his daughter Delminda, 24. He dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast...
...monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example in the First Lady of Washington's Diplomatic Corps [Brazilian Sculptress Senhora Maria Martins...
Press Suppressed. The dictatorship also attacked the press. The Department of Press & Propaganda closed five pro-U.S. national magazines with democratic inclinations: Diretrizes, a political journal; Illustracão Brasileira, a liberal monthly; Renovacão, a student publication; Nossa Senhora Menina, whose editor was Don Carlos Duarte, liberal Catholic Bishop of Maura; Mundo Medico, a professional journal that had plumped for social welfare...
...gradually quieting down. Police-car sirens shrieked through the streets at night as new spy suspects were rounded up, while huge searchlights swept the sky above Rio's harbor. But by day the streets looked half-deserted. Women were joining the Brazilian Assistance Legion, organized last week by Senhora Darcy Vargas, the President's wife; men were lining up to volunteer for the army. Two new recruits were Euclydes Aranha and Oswaldo Aranha Jr., sons of Brazil's great & good Foreign Minister...
This posed a problem for Getulio, who had a very soft spot in his heart for his oldtime friend. Besides, Pedro Ernesto had saved the leg of Senhora Vargas when it was crushed in an automobile accident and other surgeons wanted to amputate. Vargas' Minister of War ordered Pedro Ernesto imprisoned, but he was taken to the Military Police Hospital instead of the jail. When it was announced that visitors might call on Pedro Ernesto, a long line of friends queued up at the hospital's door; next to a bemedaled general stood an old Negro woman from...