Word: alfonso
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...Principe Alfonso steamed slowly in, King Gustaf V of Sweden watched from a balcony of his immense, square palace, commanding the lagoon. Came the slow thunder of a royal salute and its return. Then the King of All the Swedes and many a Lapp* descended to greet a tanned and sprightly Monarch, who soon landed from the Principe Alfonso. Naturally the royal visitor was His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...
...ominous, grey shape of the Spanish armored cruiser Principe Alfonso was silhouetted, last week, against the white buildings and brown or reddish towers of Stockholm, famed "Venice of the North...
Meanwhile in Spain there stirred the embers of revolution which always blaze up when His Majesty leaves the country. The latest previous outburst was during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...
Elements precisely such as these produced a magnificent whizz-smash, last week, when Don Alfonso Cocobo, a Grandee of Spain, set out for Biarritz and ended up in a de luxe private suite at the Hospital of Bayonne...
...Orcoma paused at the Spanish harbor of Santander, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, came aboard, exchanged greetings with the sick secretary who was barely able to rise from his bed chair...