Word: avanzadilla
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...years, redhaired, two-fisted Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, had been the passionate leader of Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
Banker Bernardez had been the head of the Avanzadilla brain trust, and a shrewd political adviser to Leader Luisa Maria, 34, the handsome, impetuous Duchess of Valencia. Cautious and levelheaded, the old man kept the organization running in spite of its hotheads. "I have ten children of my own," he would say, his blue eyes twinkling, "so I can easily manage a hundred more...
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