Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authentic Blueblood." The legacy made all of Carmen's daydreams come true-a palace in Seville, a ranch in Andalusia, three houses in Granada, a mansion in San Sebastián, stocks, bonds, and millions of pesetas in cash. The Trigos were beside themselves with joy. They uncorked the Manzanilla. The janitor and some friends stopped in to see what the commotion was about and left to publish the good tidings. By morning the news had spread to the papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta...
...Franco-approved) candidate for the Spanish throne. A shy, spoiled teenager, who is maturing rapidly, Juanito was born in exile in Rome, never set foot in Spain until 1948, when General Franco invited him to study in Madrid. This year, in his fourth year exams at Madrid's blueblood St. Isidro high school-nimble-minded Juanito chalked up grades fit for a king in geography and history, still found time for bicycling, boxing and soccer. Biggest obstacle between Juanito and the throne: Franco's endorsement of the young prince is conditional upon his father's (Pretender...
...humor, coming from prisoners rigidly confined to a few acres, is itself rigidly confined to a few topics, most of them supremely physical. But the men themselves, with their gripes and their razzing, form a diverting cross section from a rough-cut Polish-American G.I. to a Back Bay blueblood...
...this case, the duke was Carlos Pérez Soane de Pino Hermoso (beautiful pine), a grandee of Spain. Don Carlos is the only Spanish blueblood who still pursues the medieval sport of bullfighting on horseback. He owns a breeding farm called El Monasterio, where he trains his own horses, raises his own fighting bulls. On Sunday afternoons there, breeders, toreros and aficionados pass the time drinking manzanilla and watching the duke work out on his bulls...