Word: marquisate
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Mrs. Adolph Bernard Spreckels, wife of one of the sugar-gas-transit-charity dispensers of San Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating...
The Dictator. "I had to do this for Spain. The country has been ruined by politicians, and we hope to put it back in the grand place Spain occupied in the past. I took a desperate chance, but life and country were at stake." These were the words of Marquis...
Directorate. General Primo Rivera as President constituted the National Directorate as follows: Generals Adolfo Espasno, Luis Navarro, Luis Hermoso, Dalmacio Rodriguez, Antonio Mayenda, Gomez Jordana, Ruiz Portal, Mario Muslera, Admiral Marquis Mavoz.
...Story. Fair Elena, Marquise de Torre Bianca, had tawny eyes, a face quite capable of launching several thousand ships, and an insatiable taste for living de luxe. Nobody seemed to know just where she came from, but all her women friends were quite certain of her ultimate destination. So when the Marquis and she, financially ruined and forced to leave Paris on account of the collapse of a wildcat series of projects in which the Marquis had been a dummy director, arrived in the wilds of the Argentine, under the protection of engineer Robledo, a friend of the Marquis' youth...
Pirovani, the Italian, presented the titled couple with his own house, and Elena with a magnificent assortment of soap and perfumes. Canterac, the Frenchman, built an artificial park just to give a garden party for her. Even Richard Watson, the leading juvenile, fell under her spell and forgot all about...