Word: duke
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Every morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...
Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
...last. My 16-month-old niece does it when she drinks beer out of her bottle, and does it better than any of them." To the naked ear its shrill cacophony seems anarchistic; on repeated hearings it becomes clear that the players planned it that way. Duke Ellington, now a disc jockey, has been kind; old Satchmo Louis Armstrong, critical. The feud now raging between partisans of the New Orleans school of jazz, who enjoy their music, and the "progressives," who seem to undergo theirs, is reminiscent of 12th Century theological squabbles...
...palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy, cold days, and the record...
...Skating Club at 2 p.m., Adams established a two-point lead in the first period but couldn't hold it as Lowell tied up the game in the second period and went ahead to win in the third. Gordon McKee and Dave Tirrell were the scorers for Adams, while Duke Gormley scored two and Jack Dwyer one for Lowell. Lowell goalie Bill Gilbert was the outstanding player on the game...