Word: vals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...
...Excellency Alfonso, Marques de Merry del Val,* Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in that periodical by one Mme. Bordeux on behalf of Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "notorious" Spanish novelist...
...Marques de Merry del Val, white-haired and aristocratic, took umbrage at certain statements made by the "disreputable politician and brilliant novelist," one of which was that: "Spain is exactly as it has been for over three years, there is no outward change of any kind . . . it deteriorates." Penning beneath the sun at San Sebastian, popular Spanish watering place where he was spending a vacation from his diplomatic duties (he has been Ambassador in London since 1913), he wrote the following list of changes that had been effected since 1923, year of the Primo de Rivera revolution (TIME, Sept...
...Brother of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, onetime Pontifical Secretary of State (1903-14). Sons of the late Don Rafael Merry del Val, famed Spanish diplomat, both Alfonso & Raphael were educated partly in England...
...play, translated by John Masefield from the Norwegian of Wiers-Jenssen, is not so happily inspired. It seems amorphous in character. Starting with the revelation that witchcraft was a medie val actuality, it proceeds to trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed...