Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege of Greatness is to speak in words which send common folk ascurrying to dictionaries. Lustrum is such a word. Last week His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain announced...
Spanish scurriers to dictionaries were intrigued and mystified by the primary meaning of lustrum: a Latin word signifying the festival at which Romans purified themselves by sacrificing to the Gods many a pig, sheep, bull. Was beefy Dictator de Rivera announcing Spanish sacrifices of pork, mutton, beef...
General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, 58, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain, thoroughly jilted, last week, his 47-year-old fiancee (TIME, May 14) the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos, rich, vivacious, superbly preserved...
Dictator de Rivera, who has now convalesced from a short illness, issued at Madrid last week a brief statement that his engagement is at an end. It contained the allegation that the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos has recently been seen on the Stock Exchange making purchases in company with the Duke of Almodovalhe and Count Cimera. Such conduct, says the communique, was "imprudent and inexplicable...
Widower de Rivera, who has two children, said, during the brief period of his engagement: "Although I am by no means a youth, my character is still joyous. I feel that I am in need of a domestic life...