Word: alfonso
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...paradox, there is always an explanation. Little more than 19 years ago, Princess Victoria of Battenberg (now called Mountbatten) was married to King Alfonso. The young Queen, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Britain, it is true, changed her religion, but she did not change her outlook on life so easily. To Madrid she carried a number of Anglo-Saxon prejudices that clashed sharply with Romance culture. If Spanish society did not please her, she closed her eyes to it. If certain grandees by their empty verbosity bored her, she heard as little as possible. But from bullfighting there...
Last week, King Alfonso left Madrid, journeyed to Barcelona. En route, a large bomb, intended to blow up the royal train, was found on the railway tracks...
Meantime, King Alfonso had been filling his engagements with marked unconcern. The only outward sign that he gave concerning the dastardly attempt to assassinate him was to take enough time off from his scheduled duties to view the monster bomb that had first been found...
...banquet given in his honor at Córdoba, King Alfonso XIII, referred to the defamation campaign which Señor Vicente Blasco Ibanez has been waging against...
...just enough of the editors' opinions to seaSon the news a little. Thus far, you have avoided this pitfall very well, I think. As an illustration of what I mean, take the recent discussions of the situation in Spain. Personally, I like what your editor said about King Alfonso and I have no doubt most of it can be substantiated as matter of fact, but I can very well understand how someone who takes the other side of the controversy might sincerely think that you were not stating facts but expressing editorial opinion. I merely suggest the danger which...