Word: kings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemies have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
When a manufacturer accepts an order, whether it be to his liking or not, that order must be filled. In such a curiously commercial predicament is Deems Taylor, manufacturer of musical criticism and music. After his King's Henchman had had a fair success three years ago, he was commissioned to write a second opera for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Since that time he has ostensibly been a musical handyman, editing Musical America, which under his regime went bankrupt, writing miscellaneous articles for magazines, expounding opera on the radio (TIME, Nov. 18). In secret he has struggled with the commissioned...
...work for the Battle Monuments Commission, said that he contemplated writing his memoirs. Mr. & Mrs. Hiram Edward Manville (asbestos) sailed for Sweden on their new $1,000,000 yacht Hi-Esmaro with the family physician, Dr. Horace Eddy Robinson, to visit their daughter, Estelle, Countess Bernadotte, wife of King Gustav's nephew. Purpose: to be on hand at the prospective birth of a grandchild. Manhattanites were talking about Raymond Duncan, eldest brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan.- He arrived in their midst as Paris has known him for years-clad as an ancient Greek. Manhattan pedestrians gaped...
...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...