Word: infantas
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...Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred in 1893 during the World's Fair. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess- "that innkeeper's wife." For this famed snub Mrs. Palmer soon made up by having King Edward VII at her London home...
...prepared to hear Heaven-storming, epoch-making music last week. Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...
...when Ethel Barrymore was engaged to an English army officer named Graham, Finley Peter Dunne suggested a way for the couple to work out a budget: "Jack and Lionel will support them on the money that Ethel gives to Jack and Lionel." John Barrymore now has a yacht, the Infanta. His pennant is a king snake wearing a crown. Last week he was injured slightly in a motor accident...
...Infanta could not put her hand on the jewels at the moment. During the War she had sent them from Paris to Madrid for safe keeping. They were still in a trunk in a relative's house. She wrote for the trunk immediately. Last week it arrived at her Paris house. The Infanta opened it, pulled out shawl after shawl, half a dozen old umbrellas. But not a jewel did she find...
...worry," optimized Infanta Eulalia. "I know they were only mislaid...