Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Alfonso's dead sister and is a fine, dashing young officer. If he should then be declared heir to the throne, King Alfonso's daughter Beatriz would eventually become Queen of Spain. You make a mistake in thinking that King Alfonso is a puppet in Primo de Rivera's hands. Far from that, it is Alfonso who tells Primo what to do and who uses Primo as his puppet. King Alfonso knew well that he would lose his throne in an upheaval in Spain if he allowed the outrageous abuses of the so-called "Parliamentary" Government...
...whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France and his miscellaneous guzzlings in bars and on trains elsewhere. But they had not read the Mayor's most recent wireless message from on board the Ile de France: "It was to get a broader and more comprehensive view of city problems and their correction that I have traveled many miles through Europe and worked hard in my search for a rest...
...walking gentleman" in Sir Frank R. Benson's company in 1901 at Brighton, England. In recent years he has been chiefly associated with classic roles; presenting one of the most widely known Hamlets in the U. S., and the most popular present-day revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, generally considered his best role. He has his own Manhattan theatre in which he presents revivals and occasional new plays in a gradually widening repertory. Last year his play was Caponsacchi, based on Browning's The Ring and the Book. This season he plays Ibsen's An Enemy...
...irresistible. Yet only cranks are carping. Mr. Wynn is not as funny as he can be, but he continues safely as one of the five or six funniest men in the world. Surrounding him herein are stunning costumes from the designs of Roman de Tirtoff-Erté and executed by Max Weldy, Parisian; stunning chorus girls from the designs of Divine Providence; and periodic blasts of song. The thing also seems to have a plot, something about a girl from Manhattan slums who became famous in the Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually...
...Lowell Institute of which President Lowell is trustee, announces as the first course of free lectures for this year a series of eight dissertations on the population of France, to be given in French by Professor Raoul Blanchard under the general title of "Le Peuplement de la France." The next lecture, the third, will come on Monday...