Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to appear in the press as the Merry Monarch, the Gentleman-Sportsman, the Genial Host, has lately been thrust into the less popular role of Stern Father. Only last month he abruptly broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz on learning for sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile, but until a few years ago he was a deaf mute. Even now it is a little difficult...
...Boston, Pianist Jesus Maria Sanroma opened his Symphony Hall program with a skilfully contrived theme and variations by his pupil, 10-year-old Susan ("Chiqui") Godoy...
...continuing his pointed refusal to sit with the Council, operated somewhat mysteriously from his Ritz Hotel sitting room. Once the General barked: "I'll have a dead secretary if anything leaks out." Later when correspondents suggested that other statesmen with whom he conferred might give an inkling, Hell-&-Maria shrilled: "They are not telling anything about what I have been doing, because nobody knows that except myself...
First the Harley Street specialist examined Daughter Beatriz, 22, recently engaged to her handsome cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orleans. Next the specialist examined Daughter Maria Christina, 19, not engaged to anybody. When their ordeal was finally over the two young Infantas, tearful and clinging to one another, re- turned from London to Paris, rushed to the consoling arms of their beautiful mother...
Grimly ex-King Alfonso studied the specialists' reports. They confirmed what everyone has assumed. Daughters Beatriz and Maria Christina are like their mother. They are "carriers" of the dread blood disease haemophilia. When he had read the reports, Alfonso XIII as Head of the House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...