Word: marquisate
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The Marquis Quińones de León, Generalissimo Franco's French representative, made ready to move into the big, bleak Avenue George V Embassy, and in London the Duke of Alba, Generalissimo Franco's agent to Britain, prepared to take up quarters in the imposing Spanish...
THE humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the...
Marquis has, after all, a wonderful ability for characterization. No matter with whom he is dealing he does so sympathetically. Mister Splain, a village drunk, a backslider, chicken thief; Cherry Saltus, the stupid, over-sexed girl who turns the town upside down by her adventures; Jim Shale, the grave-digger...
Don Marquis had not finished the novel before his death. He intended to have Jack break away go to New York, and perhaps to Europe to fight in the World War. When Don Marquis tried to follow Jack from Hazelton to New York, he was beaten. He could not go...
But the President's appointment was still more notable, for George MacDonald is one of the foremost U. S. Roman Catholic laymen, a hereditary papal marquis. In effect the President won a diplomatic ally for his anti-fascist gesture.