Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting place for the eight clubs whose members get together there once every two weeks and as a place for receiving eminent guests or presenting public readings and discussion of selected works in various European literatures. The clubs include LeCercle Francais de Harvard, Verein Turmwaechter, Clube Hispanico, Linguistic, Luso-Brazilian, Slavic, Circolo Italiano, and Comparative Literature...
...Romance Languages naturally form a large percentage of the membership of these clubs, but membership is by no means limited to undergraduates. One of the Widener doormen happened to have lived in Brazil for a while and now he and his wife regularly attend meetings of the Brazilian Club. Foreign students make up a small percentage of the clubs. They stimulate conversation when the tendency is to lapse back into English but they presumably come to this country to learn about cultures other than their own. For this reason, the Center makes no effort to keep them isolated...
...circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from...
Last week, nevertheless, Suzy married another Brazilian, Antenor Mayrink Veiga, 47, owner of Rio's radio station Mayrink Veiga, proprietor of the Casa Mayrink Veiga (machines, munitions) on Rio's Rua Mayrink Veiga, and sometime husband of the much-married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator. Said Suzy: "He's no playboy, but older-just what I need...
...dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...