Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Almodovar and Count Cimera each addressed furious open letters, last week, to General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain...
Bitterly Duke and Count complained that their honor had been sullied by the Marquis. What did he mean, they asked in effect, by breaking off his engagement with the Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 18) and giving as his reason her "imprudent and inexplicable" conduct in appearing on the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by the Duke and Count...
...RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD-Count Egon Caesar Corti-Cosmopolitan...
...first international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...
...could pit the two fairly against each other and declare a just result. English literature, of course, would not be the only match. There are many subjects in the curricula. Cambridge would expect to win the mathematics and the principal events in all sorts of "stinks." Oxford would count upon the Litterae humaniores. But there is no telling. It is very easy for good men to train too fine; and not a few of the best fall to "come off" in competition...