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Word: sefiorita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a symposium of rumors emanating from Spain would have read: "The Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Majesty Returns | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Married. Prince Henry XV of Pless, 63, Hohenzollern, to intimate friend Sefiorita of Wilhelm Clothilde Silva y Candamo, 26. Prince Henry was Secretary to the German Embassy in London before the War. Two years ago, he appealed to the Pope for a dissolution of his first marriage on the ground that his wife's father, Colonel William Cornwallis-West, had forced him, in 1891, to marry her at the point of a revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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