Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan. The Carlists had as their candidate old Don Alfonso Carlos, who 65 years ago tried by an armed insurrection to seize the throne. When the new revolution broke out 18 months ago, he was 86. All he did was to order some 60,000 Carlists to fight under Generalissimo Franco while he sat tight in Vienna. Then one day he was killed by an automobile, and his second cousin, Prince Xavier, was chosen as the new Carlist pretender...
...Britain. One was from the officers of the 1st The Royal Dragoons, whose honorary colonel he was till the War.* The other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order of the Garter at Windsor. The text of this message was not revealed but its signature was announced with pride: "Bertie, May, and Elizabeth" (i. e., George VI, Queen Mother Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...
...have a true vocation, she is admitted to the sisterhood as a postulant, to undergo at least three months of religious life before being professed as a novice. Last week in San Antonio, Tex., when five postulants entered the convent of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament-a teaching order which has labored ably in the U. S. since 1853-they made news because: 1) they were a mother and four daughters; 2) the four daughters had for eight years been members of an itinerant jazz orchestra called Jerry McRae's Texas ' Rangerettes...
Always hard to overcome the midyear layoff and get the team back to game pitch, Fesler has really been working the netmen in the last few practices. New plays to spruce up the offence and work on a tighter defence have been the order of the day, while general conditioning has also been emphasized...
...atmosphere in which the peaceful adjustment of fundamental problems is increasingly difficult. There is no need for the United States to add to this chaos. War is not inevitable. Our influence must continue to be a force for sanity and reason and not for panic, for law and order and not for aggression,-for peace...