Word: bourbon
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Married. Prince Luis de Bourbon, 41, cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, former fiance of Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, onetime Broadway beauty who broke off with him after he demanded a dowry of $200,000, an annual income of $10,000, plus $2,000 yearly pocket money; and Princess Amedee de Broglie, 70, member of the oldest French noble families...
Father Gabriel MacDarby of the English Roman Catholic Church in Paris (St. Joseph's). Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen, in the presence of a Legate of the Pope before whom a great golden cross was borne...
With the Chamber absolutely in pandemonium Deputy Jean Hennessy, brandy tycoon, jumped up and shouted: "Henry IV, greatest of all the Bourbon Monarchs of France, was given wine in his nursing bottle...
...word Kentucky connotes thoroughbred horses, Bourbon whiskey, hotheaded, white-headed Southern colonels drinking mint juleps before breakfast. In 1774 Kentucky meant a promised land of fabulous fertility, beyond almost impassable mountains, 500 miles from the outposts of civilization. Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts lifts the curtain from 150 years, shows you Kentucky as it was then...
Eighteen selling platers, worth from $1,000 to $3,000 each, were burned to death, among them names often shouted by the crowds along the rail?Dude Girl, Leisure Hour, Rogue's Gold, Bourbon, Royal Ruby and two western platers, Pik Quik and Flapjack, owned by Major R. Nicholas of Big Horn, Wyo. One hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their...