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CASTLE IN ANDALUSIA - Elizabeth Sprigge-Macmillan ($2.50). The English wife of a Spanish aristocrat finds modern Spain less romantic than real; by the author of The Old Man Dies...
...incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first female aristocrat to lose her head to their New Justice...
...father. Depression shaved that fortune to $30,000,000, still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity. Doris ("Dee-Dee") grew up to be a moderately pretty blue-eyed...
Still the aristocrat of the domestic automobiles, the Duesenberg has added a new Opera Brougham to its line of body types. And it remains the only American car without skirts on the fenders-and the most expensive...
...broad belt to any other kind, and preferred cutting with these same knives a cold fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down to a properly appointed dinner." At the royal luncheon table, however, His Majesty, a keen, hard aristocrat of the old Italian breed, had no difficulty in keeping up his end with the robust offspring of the storekeeper, the blacksmith and the chieftain...