Word: bourbon
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Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown...
...right rump. In Havana the outcast couple rented a modest apartment, all they could afford on the small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house of Bourbon. Soon as the young people had their pantry filled and their curtains hung, they summoned Dr. Pedro A. Castillo, a general practitioner, to diagnose the rump pain. The doctor suspected an abscess caused by a hypodermic injection which the young man received just before leaving Europe...
...story, whose scene is Paris, is laid in the future. France, after a bitter civil war between Communists and Royalists, has become a kingdom, and the Bourbon lilies once again float over the Louvre. Walter Leroy, a young Manhattan doctor with liberal leanings, is on his way to Paris, ostensibly to pursue medical research, but actually to deliver money and a message from the U. S. Communist Party to their shattered comrades in France. On the boat with him travel M. de la Penthièvre, most potent minister of the new king; Mr. Penkethman, aged but acute sleuth connected...
...Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London on a visit, Sir William surprised everybody by marrying her. Though she was still not received by English society, Lady Hamilton made quite a stir among the Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common." When Captain Horatio Nelson, on duty with the British Mediterranean Fleet, called at Naples, he was entertained...
Sweater letters won by collegiate red-bloods are viewed with haughty amusement by that scion of numerous bloods-royal, Prince René de Bourbon-Parme, upon whose sports-sweater are the royal