Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
...infra-red pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
...years pass, she marries a rich nobleman, and then bumps into Jourdan at the opera. Although the interim is supposed to be nine years, neither Miss Fontaine nor Jourdan have changed at all, so the audience is just as surprised as the heroine that he doesn't remember her. She tries to remind him but he remains buffaloed. Soon thereafter the son dies and, as she feels herself dying too, she pens him a long, long letter...
...Messrs. Pinza and Baccaloni sang and clowned their way through three hours of Mozart with great success. With unique genius "Don Giovanni" portrays the interplay of two most fundamental of life's forces: religion and sex. In the cataclysmic conclusion of the opera, when the statue accepts the arrogant nobleman's invitation to dinner, we realize that it can be only a supernatural power which will bring Don Giovanni to his doom. Behind the opera's dramatic end is one of the greatest portrayals of right's ascension over wrong...
Mirabeau lives in history as the nobleman whose defiance of the king did much to bring on the French Revolution. When Louis XVI ordered the Third Estate to vote separately from the other orders, it was Mirabeau who said: "Go and tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not leave except by force of bayonets...