Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus spake Henri Torres, attorney for 72-year-old Amedee Princess de Broglie last week, defending her against efforts by her nephews to block her marriage with dissolute, notorious, 41-year-old Prince Luis Fernando de Bourbon of Spain. One of the complainant nephews is his grace the Due de Brissac. The court, after mature reflection, held that "in French law the right to bring such suit as this appertains only to ancestral relatives, not to descendants...
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...