Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welcomed the King of Spain; and all he got out of the visit, besides a rousing reception, was a night at the Opéra when he narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a Spaniard. Of all the Courts he had visited and all the princesses he had seen, none appealed to him as much as Victoria Eugenie, the blue-eyed, fair-haired Princess Ena of Battenberg, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. And so, at Biarritz, he became formally engaged to her; and, the next year (1906), the couple were married in Madrid. The ceremony was marred only by the dastardly...
...present year, the 39th of Alfonso's reign and age, this tall, slight man with the ready smile?gay, brave to the point of recklessness, with features in no wise handsome, but none the less attractive?is in reality a monarch beloved by his people. Much more than his embittered enemies may he be called a democrat of Spain. Hard-worker, severely earnest in fulfilling his responsibilities, unusually tactful and liberal-minded, rapid and accurate in his decisions, he combines to a high degree of perfection those qualities of intellect for which he has earned recognition...
What better place to see the Ambassador than directly in front of the Embassy None. So she "hung around," her hands hidden in her sleeves, for it was very cold...
Long and cold were the vigils. None could be sure of the dead man's wish. Through long nights the Doukhobors waited. Finally, they held an election at the graveside, chose Peter Veregin Jr., 41, who was supposed to be en route for Canada from Russia. The anxious Doukhobors, 10,000 strong, awaited the advent of their prophet-elect...
...ever underwrite so vast an undertaking, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times declared his paper would advance $500,000 to the American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies, for the creation of 20 volumes containing the lives of some 20,000 illustrious Americans, including none of the living. The Times sought to assume no control over the project, "the function of the Times being simply that of making possible, by this large subvention, the preparation of a book of reference which has long been . . . the one great desideratum among American works of reference...