Word: alfonso
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...example set by Jesus Christ was followed, last week, by their Most Catholic Majesties, King Alfonso and Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain...
...preliminary they summoned to the Royal Palace in Madrid a starveling rabble of beggars from among whom were chosen by lot 13 men and 13 women. Soon the lucky 26 had their feet washed. Queen Victoria Eugénie laved the feet of the women. King Alfonso attended...
...fame rested on two things-the Pittsburgh Leader, which he had published, and the late Lillian Russell, whose widower he was. Spain's sporting royalty found him a "typical American," loquacious, gustatory, with a head as hard as it was large. Not a few good "tips" did King Alfonso get on U. S. stocks. In return Mr. Moore acquired, by the time he resigned in 1925, some of that polish which only intimate, cosmopolitan "contacts" can give...
...Fortuna!" Throated men: "Kill the bull:" Serene, the great Fortuna moved with unhurried, catlike swiftness to satisfy the unreasonable demands of his public. Stripping off his rain coat he stepped before the bull, swirling the garment through classic florcos as though it were a bullfighter's cloak, "Go Alfonso!" he cried to a friend in the crowd, "Run! Get me a sword! Our little one (gesturing at the bull, now beginning to charge) will die when you return. . . ." Charged the bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna's flirting rain coat away from the crowds and toward a stone wall...
Died. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...