Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Familiar are the main facts of his life: He was born a king. His blood is the most reactionary in Europe?both Habsburg and Bourbon. He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His son & heir suffered for years from haemophilia (easy bleeding), was never expected to live for the succession, but is now apparently cured. Graven on the public mind is the fact that Alfonso plays polo a great deal, likes gunning and sailing, drives an automobile very fast...
...days after the bedside visit, the latest ruling Bourbon screwed his courage to the sticking point, signed the momentous decree. A new Chamber will be elected March 1, a new Senate March 15 and the decree states that on March 25 the Sovereign will personally open the new Cortes (Parliament...
Also under the decree, press censorship was lifted and all constitutional guarantees resumed their force. Spain was declared a republic in 1873, but two years later the House of Bourbon was restored. Last week Spanish Republicans and Spanish Monarchists squared off for the most exciting electoral battle of the Century in Spain. If the Republicans win the Bourbons may fall again-may of course pick themselves up again too. Their friends will control the polls...
Died. Prince Antoine Louis Phillipe Marie ("Naughty Boy")of Bourbon-Orléans, 64, Infante of Spain, Duke of Galliera, uncle of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, husband of the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, grandson of King Louis Philippe of France (last Bourbon to reign). Funloving, extravagant, he was once incarcerated by King Alfonso for giving 1,000-franc notes as tips. He once got out of prison by feigning insanity...
...Socialist grabbed the Nationalist dog whip. Struggling and writhing the mass of embattled Deputies and journalists bore down upon a large plate glass door, shat tered the glass, broke through the wood work and spilled the entire scrimmage out onto the lawn of the Palais-Bourbon...