Word: marquesas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquesa also said recently, "$10,000,000 has been sent to Spain from the United States, for the purpose of making bullets which were to kill off Catholics...
...with the statement that no matter how unfortunate the picture, she still appears beautiful. The English have considerable in Annabella, but since "Wings of the Morning" they have found nothing decent in which to cast her. It is disturbing to see her as three different women,--as a Spanish marquesa, an Indian princess, and a petite French blonde (which part seems most natural); it is more disturbing to have her moved from Paris to Monte Carlo to the yacht "Seagull" to Pringle's-by-the-Thames in one plot...
...Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant of an illustrious 15th Century defender of Granada against the Moors. In 1919 a Papal legate in Paris performed the ceremony which united "Mimi" with an Englishman named Cecil Blunt, né Blumenthal, who straightway became a Papal Count by appointment of Benedict XV. In Rome the Pecci...
...diplomats, businessmen, soldiers and lovely ladies hastened to the Hotel du Pont Royal to pay their last respects. There Primo de Rivera lay in state in a brown homespun gown, coarse sandals on his large pale feet, a huge rosary of polished granite beads in his lifeless fingers. The Marquesa de Arguilles and Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos, two ladies whose intimacy with Don Primo had caused many a scurrilous press clipping, came early in the afternoon, gazed sadly at their friend in one costume they had never seen him wear, the habit of a lay brother of the Carmelite monks...