Word: alfonso
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...authorities at San Se bastian, French police had raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped...
...York, Editor Edwin Balmer of Red Book magazine beamed all over his pink and pleasant face. He was about to release a news scoop for which a dozen publishers would have given the bronze elephants off their desks: the first authorized story of ex-King Alfonso's reign & exile...
Ever since the last of the Bourbons reached sanctuary in Paris last April, the U. S. Press has angled intently for his story. One magazine, as Alfonso ex plained, bluntly cabled $10,000 for a 1,000-word article. Alfonso XIII probably would like $10,000 as well as the next man, but he is also one of the proudest members of a proud race. Said...
...lank Romanov, the Grand Duke Alexander, who has been earning a precarious living in the U. S. by lecturing ladies' clubs on the Better Life. Filled with journalistic zeal, H. I. H. wrote to his editor and suggested that he might go out to Fontainebleau to talk to Alfonso, might persuade his former Majesty to allow a transcript of that conversation to be published. He did. The first instalment of the transcription is on U. S. newsstands this week...
...Entered Alfonso. Nothing could have been better chosen or more tactful than the words with which he greeted his royal cousin who 14 years ago lost his coronet and all his money in a far more violent upheaval...