Word: valencia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children in Valencia, she sang while Jose played the piano. When Jose went to the Paris Conservatory, Amparo wanted to go too, but Jose said no: "It's all work. One gets nothing but exhaustion. And [for her] it's not necessary." That is why, she says, she is still a "kind of wild pianist." At 18, Amparo arrived in Paris under her own steam, made her debut as a pianist six years later. Finally, just before the Spanish civil war broke out, Jose persuaded her to join...
...Duchess of Valencia, who speaks her monarchist mind in public, was out about $45,000. That was the latest fine levied against her by the Franco cabinet. The duchess, a dark-eyed beauty who was once fined for making monarchist noises in a tea shop, was charged this time with inciting a college-boy rebellion...
...World War II, Monsignor Salvatore Montes de Oca, onetime Bishop of Valencia, Venezuela, gave refuge to Italian Partisans in a monastery near Lucca, where he was staying. The Germans executed him and the Partisans he tried to save. Last week the body of the martyr was brought back to Venezuela. It lay in state in the Cathedral of Caracas, while representatives of the Church, Government and Army paid tribute, before burial in Valencia...
...crops were being gathered and they were good. On the humid shores of Lake Valencia sugar was being cut and corn harvested. The beans of coffee and cacao were stripped from highland groves in the northwest. But, as usual, the rusty soil of Venezuela had not produced enough. Given sufficient agricultural machinery from abroad, it might be five years, announced Secretary of Agriculture Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, before the nation could feed itself...
While he practices at his piano, Valencia-born Iturbi often dictates letters to his secretary or talks to his two grandchildren. He speaks to his grandchildren in Spanish, to his butler in Italian, to his close friend Director Jean Negulesco in French, to others in a somewhat mangled English...