Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present-one of the eleven Norwegian platinum fox pelts in the world. Price: $1,722.50. Some days earlier he had also taken her to Biarritz to see some royal statuary-a bust of Queen Victoria, the Duke'sgreat-grandmother, designed by the French Sculptor Maxime Réal del Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust will be unveiled next month. Biarritz's mayor explained that the reason for the tribute was that in 1889 Queen Victoria visited Biarritz, and in her train...
When Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Early one morning a 21-gun salute roared out from Montjuich fortress as Generalissimo Franco, accompanied by his Moorish guard, motored into the centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part in the Catalonian offensive...
Loyalist Foreign Minister Julio Alvárez del Vayo flew from Madrid to France to persuade Senior Azaña to return to Loyalist Spain and thus rob Britain and France of an excuse to withdraw recognition. Long and heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed...
...intention to go to Madrid and continue the struggle. Again France indulged in a friendly gesture to General Franco and informed Premier Negrin that no special plane would be allowed to remove him from French soil. Again the Premier found a way out. With his Foreign Minister, Julio Alvarez del Vayo, he quietly journeyed to Toulouse, boarded an Air France plane for Madrid. It was a dangerous solution, for a forced landing would have dumped them in the sea near Rebel territory...