Word: christina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover, he himself can "pass" his own ordinances. Appointed to his present job in 1936, the Governor General formerly held the important post of Dutch Minister to Belgium. His wife is the U. S.-born Christina Marburg, daughter of Theodore Marburg, onetime U. S. Minister to Belgium...
HOUSE OF ALL NATIONS - Christina Stead-Simon & Schuster...
This 741-page historical melodrama about "a modern Monte Cristo" is an unusual tale. Most extraordinary thing about it is its echoes of Christina Stead's month-and-a-half-old House of All Nations (TIME, June 13). Both novels run to about the same length, both have the same satirical, tight-nerved, epigrammatic slant on their backgrounds of international high finance, war and revolution. The World Is Mine, with a more extravagant range, livelier plot, less diffuseness, is better than Author Stead's brilliant book...
Curious parallels show in the two authors' backgrounds as well. Son of a Midwest surgeon, pseudonymous William Blake, now in his 403, has been a broker and financial editor in Wall Street and Europe, four years ago went into the grain business in Antwerp, where Christina...
...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...