Word: alphonso
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...Ambassador Ogden Haggerty Hammond's coach rode Count Velle, whose duty was to introduce the new U. S. Ambassador to Spain to H. M. Alphonso XIII, a vital, resolute young man with a twinkle...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...
...Chief Justice William Howard Taft. The sons of his paternal grandfather Alphonso Taft were: By his first wife, Charles Phelps Taft (lawyer, some-time editor and congressman) ; by his second wife: William Howard Taft, Horace Dutton Taft (Headmaster of the famous Taft School at Watertown, Conn.), and Henry Waters Taft (Manhattan lawyer...
...pamphleteering propaganda has so incensed the Spanish royalists that they issue challenges to duels at the rate of 200 a day. But Ibanez's fire, or rather his lunge, is not so easily drawn. With rolling eyes and teeth champing like castanets, he declares grandiloquently that only King Alphonso or Primo de Rivera may match rapiers with him. What could be more audacious than a novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez...
...special attraction of the performance will be the Specialty Jazz Orchestra, which "won an almost international reputation by its European trip last summer. When in Spain, the orchestra was asked to play before King Alphonso and Queen Victoria at Santander, the summer palace of the Spanish court, where it was given a reception by the Queen. Besides playing at numerous benefit balls, the orchestra filled many private engagements, which included a concert at the American embassy in San Sebastian, Spain...