Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish estates thrust upon him by a grateful Cortes, is a little fortified Spanish town between Salamanca and the Portuguese frontier. Tourists bless the ultra-British foxhunting Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, for in that town is one of the quaintest, best run inns in Western Spain, the Hospederia del Castillo de Enrique...
...District of Columbia, its 240,000 acres give lordly privacy to its little capital. La Cuesta Encantada. On this Enchanted Hill, the monarch's castle rears cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury...
...Wilmington, Del., Melvin Train, garage hand, induced friends in 1921 to invest money in a business enterprise of his brother-in-law, lost their money when his brother-in-law absconded, vowed to remain silent until all losses were made good. Last week he paid off the last creditor, spoke for the first time in eleven years...
Died. Jules Piccard, 93, longtime (1883-1920) University of Basel chemistry professor, father of Stratospherist Auguste Piccard and his twin Chemist Jean Piccard of Wilmington, Del.; in Lausanne...
...less bright than the Whitney and Widener niches. When racing was outlawed in New York State in 1911, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Payne Whitney did more than anyone else to keep it going. Mrs. Clark winters her horses, not at Cooperstown with her husband's, but at Glasgow, Del., does more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire. Kellsboro Lass, dam). Mrs. Clark is aunt...