Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS year as well as last saw literary representations of nineteenth century decades at a rate almost epidemic. Don Marquis wrote of the adventurous business enterprises of the seventies. "The Mauve Decade" summed up, falsely, some aver, the social life of the nineties, and Mark Sullivan with the "Turn of...
The Circolo Italiano will celebrate its 25th anniversary tonight with a dinner at the Union at 7.30 o'clock. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, will act as toastmaster, while the speakers will include Professor G. B. Weston '11, of the department of Romance Languages in the University. Dr. C. M...
General Don Valerian Weylery Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, was acquitted last week by a court-martial in Madrid of the charge (TIME, July 5), that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had...
Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Premier of Spain, with "a figure like a Bartlett pear," with a fondness for ladies: "In demanding a rigid press censorship for Spain, I last week remarked: 'I have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but...