Word: alvaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when on a peak in Darien, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, after slogging through malarial jungles, emerged in sight of the Pacific. First man to hit upon the idea of an interoceanic canal was Balboa's companion, Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron...
...love of painting. She learned to draw accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...
Snake Venom. From a snake farm near Sāo Paulo, Brazil came Professor Maocyr E. Alvaro to tell of the effects of snake venom on eyes. Snake venom is a highly complex compound of proteins and enzymes which vary in quality and proportion with the species of snake. Two constituents of venom have already been isolated; one is a specific nerve poison which makes an excellent painkiller when diluted; the other is an enzyme which causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated...
Married? Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress ("Joan" in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan); and Frank Walker Wheeler, assistant to the president of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; in Manhattan. Marriage Revealed. Natacha Rambova, onetime wife of Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino; and Don Alvaro de Urzaiz, Spanish nobleman; 18 months ago; in Palma, Mallorca...
Still Spain's "richest man," if he could escape confiscation by the Republic of his fantastically huge estates, was hawk-nosed old Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres Count de Romanones last week. Solemnly, fervently he declared to the Agrarian Reform Council: "Never, in all the years that I served King Alfonso [several times as Premier] did I ever avail myself of my privilege, as a Grandee of Spain, to remain covered in His Majesty's presence at Court...