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Word: ortasona (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid, the grandees conducted a kind of dignified sit-down strike against "foreigners of dubious origin." So far, they had signed the patents of only two claimants. Intoned the committee's secretary, the Marqués de Ortasona: "What the king has given, and has been lost, can only be restored by a king." Added another grandee: "We are in no hurry. Perhaps if we slow down enough, the patents will bear the signature of a king and not of a commoner who happens to be chief of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Cost of Nobility | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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