Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrilling book. The heroine, La Sanfelice herself, an impoverished nobelwoman whose sympathies in the Neapolitan Revolution are naturally aristocratic but who accidentally betrays a royalist counter-revolution and becomes the toast and symbol of the Jacobin cause, comes to life in these pages. Her dissolute husband, her lover Fernando, her nephew Lauriano, are specimens in the fine art of re-creating historical characters. The personal histories of this quartet, and that of Don Gerardo Baker, are fascinatingly unfolded against the grim pageant of Naples torn by civil strife...
...Then out stepped the Alcázar's heroic Commandant, bearded, emaciated Colonel José Moscardó. The circles under his eyes were greenish black and he trembled as he walked. "Colonel José Moscardó," said the White Generalissimo, "I confer upon you the Cross of San Fernando, and I confer this same cross collectively upon the whole company of Spain's greatest heroes." He then raised Colonel Moscardó to the rank of General and appointed him Commander of the Eastern Army...
Died. Prince Alfonso Carlos Fernando José Juan Pío de Borbón y Austria-Este, 87, since 1931 the eccentric Carlist pretender to the non-existent Spanish throne, who led 14,000 troops in the last Carlist fight (1873-76) against the legitimate Bourbon monarchy; of injuries received when struck by an automobile; in Vienna. To run his shabby Vienna palace he kept a single uniformed doorman, adopted a Negro girl...
...Manhattan court, it was revealed that pale, limping, hemophilic Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, the Count of Covadonga, 29, eldest son of deposed Alfonso XIII of Spain, technical adviser and salesman with Manhattan's defunct British Motors, Ltd., had pledged part of his share of the Span ish crown jewels as security against loans of "considerable sums...
...ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from cardiac failure due to valvular disease...