Word: spainâ
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When sealed, the simple mahogany box lined with lead was placed upon a catafalque. Splendrously a mass was sung. Then reverent hands lowered the Queen Mother to her last rest in the Panteon de los Reyes. There many a sovereign of Spain???including Maria Christina's husband, Alfonso XII?already, lay, each in a black marble sarcophagus lettered in gold. Into a similar sarcophagus went Maria Christina Henrietta Desiree Felicite Réniére de Espana...
...from widest sources; from jaded novelists and strong-minded grandmothers, from callow collegians and a onetime U. S. foreign ambassador, who had circulated verses that were but feebly expressive of the ecstasy that called them forth. The evening had even been signalized by a cable from the King of Spain???his thanks in advance for America's "homage to Spanish...
...Author. Vicente Blasco Ibanez was extremely popular as a novelist in Spain some ten or fifteen years ago. It is said, however, that since that time, his reputation in Spain??? especially in the Spanish literary world?has increased in inverse ratio to his increasing popularity abroad. (Translations...