Word: alfonso
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...Museum. Helen Lee Eames, debutante stepdaughter of Henry Latham Doherty, potent oil-utility tycoon, ordered twelve Ford sport cabriolets which she will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap near Madrid. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday...
...Died. Alfonso Maria Cardinal Mistrangelo, 78, Archbishop of Florence; of gastric poisoning; in Florence, Italy...
Spain's Alfonso XIII ordered crown warrants issued for arrest on charges of lese-majeste of leaders of the "Republican Alliance," new and threatening federation of the largest of the 22 little Spanish "splinter parties" which have raged impotently for a Republic...
...King Alfonso of Spain lately went to Southampton, England, on a train whose chef, steward and pantryboy all were named King. Hearing that King George would be at the horse-racing at Sandown, Isle of Wight, the Kings (chef, steward and pantryboy) put purses on a horse named Cherry King. Cherry King came in first, paid...
...little man, frail, prematurely aged and crippled by arthritis, Sir Arthur was quiet, dignified, unhurried, hard to ruffle. The red tape of his job bored him; he knew how to laugh. When, newly appointed Ambassador to Spain, he presented his credentials to King Alfonso, he read his speech before the grandees of Spain, listened to the King's reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard...