Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grimly ex-King Alfonso studied the specialists' reports. They confirmed what everyone has assumed. Daughters Beatriz and Maria Christina are like their mother. They are "carriers" of the dread blood disease haemophilia. When he had read the reports, Alfonso XIII as Head of the House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...
...been those who have bucked the crowd for their principles who have risen above the mediocrity of the mass. In recent years the CRIMSON has shown an admirable reluctance to truckle to the established order of things as they are. More than once its staff has brayed the Bourbon majority with stimulating spirit. Minority hats off again to the CRIMSON. R. D. Whittemore 1913 Cragmor, Colorado...
...impossible even though, as your historical comment indicates, it may be quite unlikely, is borne out by the fact that a few years ago a Louisville drug store used to offer, on the occasion of what were called 1? sales, two quarts of excellent, 100 proof, five-year-old Bourbon for $1.01 which on the old time bartender's calculation of 20 drinks to a quart would figure somewhere in the neighborhood of 2½? a drink...
Inside the National Assembly excited Deputies wrestled for 15 hours with a national question breathtaking in its implications. Christianity has existed in Spain since the 2nd Century. Each of her Bourbon kings was "His Most Catholic Majesty." Under Spain's First Republic (1873-75) Mother Church was not molested. Last week's great question: Should the Second Republic now disestablish the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church in Spain, expel her Jesuits and bar her priests from their cherished mission as educators of Catholic youth...
Died. Don Jaime of Bourbon (Jaime Juan Carlos Alfonso Felipe de Bourbon-Anjou), 61, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, cousin of deposed King Alfonso XIII; of a heart attack; in Pans...