Avra

Avra thought he looked cold so she threw a blanket on him before she left.

The Kid on the Floor Michael Wayne Hampton 2012

I love old Eliezer Shine running with his floppy-pocketed pants on the walls of the Old City; I love Avra the thief, especially at the moment when she puts the bullets into her own body and wonders about the fate of her twins, "shading the bullets with their yet-unlived lives"; I love Miriam and her sister Noona as they walk through the streets of Kovna, "two girls controlling the gusts of local weather."

A Conversation with Nomi Eve, author of The Family Orchard 2010

It was founded in 1920 by music teacher and critic Avra Theodoropoulou and enjoyed strong support from prominent liberal educationalists such as Dimitris Glinos, Alexandros Svolos, M. Triantafilidis, and others.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

The League's brand of feminism was described as 'spiritual emancipation' by Avra Theodoropoulou (1926); as a 'reclassification of human entities' according to colleague Maria Svolou; as the 'the patriotism of our gender', according to Rosa Imvrioti (1926); and as 'the liberation of women's power' according to Alkis Thrilos (1923), all of whom were prominent members.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

(The astrology at Avra(ha)m's birth had predicted that he via Sara(i/h) would be childless.)

Query: Jewish References to the Star of Bethlehem? brotherguy 2010

Oddly, the next article in the same issue was by none other than Avra Theodoropoulou, writing on the case of equal rights for women.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

The speeches and writings of the president, Avra Theodoropoulou, echoed the theory of history and society of her close colleague and prominent demoticist, Dimitris Glinos.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

As the Second World War unfolded in Greece with the Axis occupation, both the League's president, Avra Theodoropoulou, and her colleague, Rosa Imvrioti, joined the communist-led Resistance movement, a choice for which Imvrioti, like Svolou, would later be persecuted.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

'Gia tin ierarchisi ton politon: Ta archeia ton Avra kai Spirou Theodoropoulou' (On the 'ordering' of citizens: The files of Avra and Spiros Theodoropoulou).

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

In February 1947 tensions between leftist and bourgeois elements within POG culminated in the resignation of Avra Theodoropoulou from the presidency, '... immediately after she had learnt of the unjust and unjustifiable attack by the left-wing WIDF against the bourgeois International Alliance of Women' (printed in the WIDF's bulletin, Oct./Nov 1946).

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008