Word: beatriz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires sanatorium last week things began to look up for darkly pretty, tuberculous, 22-year-old María Beatriz ("Mariquita") del Valle-Inclán. Many newspaper-reading Argentines were happy for her. It seemed at last that she might be saved both from tuberculosis and from the vengeance of Spain's Francisco Franco -which extends even to sick young girls...
...Lisbon this week the exiles went to Senhor Joly's villa. Carol telephoned to Seville, promised to "pay in full" his $852 Andalusia Palace Hotel bill. Madame Lupescu asked that her two Pekingese and two fox terriers be cared for by the Infanta Beatriz de Bourbon y Orleans, Carol's aunt. Meanwhile Seville police broke open such hand baggage as Carol and Magda had left behind, found mostly tinned foodstuffs which in Spain today are precious luxuries. Missing was any trace of the fat manuscript of memoirs upon which Carol Hohenzollern has been working for months...
...King tires of everything; some day he will tire of me," she had said). Near her sat the two of his four sons whom hemophilia had not killed: tall, goodlooking Don Juan (for whom he had renounced his claim to the throne) and deaf Don Jaime. Wild-eyed Infanta Beatriz was there, and Alfonso may have remembered that she had driven the car in which Son Gonzalo was riding the night a slight accident made him bleed to death (the King had paced his room that night, sobbing like a child). His plump, favorite daughter, Infanta Maria Christina...