Word: madeiras
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...voice; Meyer Jr., who fiddles and may follow his father's course; Garry, a trumpeter; Emery, a composer-pianist; Marjorie, a pianist. The Davis family assembles on Sundays, if at no other time, always eats the same dinner, a good one ranging from cheese souffle to ice cream, Madeira and coffee...
...Windsor" went aboard at Lisbon well before sailing time with three cairn terriers and a Sealyham, 52 pieces of luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid...
Meantime, he hastened the evacuation of 16,000 non-combatants from Gibraltar town. His wife and some 400 others went to Funchal, Madeira. A contingent of 300 were sent across the Strait to Tangier. As ships could be brought for them, others were to go to the Bahamas and Canada. Ships arriving brought supplies and soldier reinforcements that increased the Rock's garrison to above...
...father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given him, and several "secret" manuscripts. To the family priest...
...years since that day, Archduke Otto has devoted his life, with the sober zeal of a Gilbert & Sullivan clown prince, to the cause of Restoration outlined in that childish paper. From Madeira the impoverished family moved to Spain, where 40 Spanish grandees bought them a villa...