Word: alphonso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substituted it is certain that he will be in one of the nine matches. The match between Tarangoli and B. H. Whitbeck '29, in the first singles promises to be the feature of the afternoon. Whitbeck lost but one match on the Southern trip and that to C. Alphonso Smith, a national star, while Tarangoli is the holder of the Metropolitan Mens' Indoor Championship...
...victory in a series of matches in which much sparkling tennis was displayed. The two teams divided the singles matches and it was Harvard's 2 to 1 edge in the doubles that gave them victory. The feature matches were Whitbeck's defeat by C. Alphonso Smith, national star and Ingraham's three set victory over Taylor...
...photographed. Nothing less than a royal occasion persuaded Brother Sosthenes, in 1924, to pose with the nobles, the diplomats and churchmen of Spain. The occasion was, of course, the opening of the new Spanish telephone system, and royalty was present in the person of His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alphonso XIII...
Sirs: "The first man-child ever born a king," as TIME puts it, probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above...
...Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati married a Miss Fannie Phelps, who bore him Charles Phelps Taft and died. He then married Miss Louisa Maria Torrey, who bore him three sons, one every other year beginning in 1857-William Howard Taft, Henry Waters Taft (Manhattan lawyer) and Horace Button Taft (founder-headmaster of Taft School, Watertown, Conn.). Three of these Tafts had issue. Charles Phelps Taft's children were Jane, David, Anna, Charles. William Howard Taft's were Robert, Charles Phelps II, Helen. Henry Waters Taft's were Walbridge, William Howard II and Louise. These, in turn, have produced...