Word: albaness
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Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History received its first news from the expedition which rich, eccentric Templeton Crocker of San Francisco is conducting in the South Sea islands aboard his big yacht Zaca. The news: Gygis alba, a white, gull-like bird, builds no nest for her solitary, mottled egg but plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering...
Riga telegraphed Paris, Paris cabled the U. S. and last week every big paper in the land carried the news that Andrew William Mellon had purchased Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba from the Soviet Government for the fabulous...
Speaker Santiago Alba entered the semicircular hall of the Cortes in Madrid one afternoon last week. It was time for the session to begin. The Government was proposing to extend Spain's handy "state of alarm" another month to scare off a general farm-labor strike. A trade treaty with the U. S. was in the making. But as Speaker Santiago Alba's eye swept the benches, he goggled. The benches were nearly deserted, Government and Opposition. "Where are they all?'' he asked. A page boy told him they had all gone to a bull fight...
...mules and a carriage with four wheels. In 1788 Charles IV came to the throne. Interested only in hunting he allowed his ugly, lecherous wife, Maria Luisa of Parma, and her lover, Manuel Godoy, to run the country. Goya became court painter and the lover of the Duchess of Alba whom he painted nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened...
...Breakfast!'' roared Captain Guillermo Alba Rodriguez at his dawdling orderly last March. When Orderly Juan Rivera shambled in 45 minutes later with breakfast he received a furious frontal kick from hungry Captain Rodriguez, crumpled up and died. Last week kicking Captain Rodriguez was tried by a Mexican court-martial, sentenced to be shot. "This is the first death sentence in the Mexican Army since 1927," announced a careful spokesman for the Court. "In that year General Rueda Quijana was shot for high treason...