Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With laconic precision, the King declared the new Assembly open. The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building. Senor Jose Maria Yanguas, onetime Secretary of State, was chosen President of the Assembly and made the opening speech, in which, as he was bound to, he lauded Dictator de Rivera...
...England) is alive. Gossip in Europe says that the healthy members of King Alfonso's family are his two daughters, and that the eldest one, the Infanta Beatriz, has inherited Alfonso's clever brains also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso's dead...
...Miracle she had won recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First Elf), Christa Tordy (Helena). Miss Pinchot never once stuttered...
...mountain pueblo named Boaco, in the department of Chontales, Nicaragua. This Central American stronghold is where General Jose Maria Moncada, chief of the Liberal forces, delivered his arms to my marines on May 13. In wet weather it is reached by horse or pack-mule only. Occasionally an aeroplane drops mail to us. However the mail reaches us, the periodical which I first open is TIME, short, snappy, to the point, a mental feast. Critics to the contrary notwithstanding. I still persist in reading TIME from p. 1 to the bitter end. Please do not permit our great friend...
...July 31, 1914 (the day before Germany declared war on Russia) Prince Oscar, then a youth of 26, utterly disgusted the Court by espousing in morganatic union a comparative nobody: Ina Maria, Countess of Brassewitz. That a royal prince should look no higher was considered in the very poorest taste. That Prince Oscar and his countess should settle down in unobtrusive happiness to the duty of rearing children (four), was deemed commendable but dull...