Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin, 1933 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, is a 63-year-old White Russian, self-exiled from Russia 16 years ago, now living with his 20-year-old adopted daughter in a modest villa at Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with...
Pancho Augustin Villa Jr., 21. son of the oldtime Mexican bandit, who had been hired by a Hollywood studio to play his father as a young man in a film based on Villa's life, was declared insane by a Los Angeles court, committed to an asylum because he refused to wear clothes, attacked his mother with a piece of scrap iron...
...Villa Turicum," a 206-acre Lake Forest estate with 52 -room Italian palace de signed by the late Charles Adams Platt, once worth $2,500,000, went last week in a sheriff's sale to American National Bank & Trust Co., which held judgment against...
...which the Governor, the Mayor, and other figures come to old Annie's reception, and fill the heart of the Count with that delicate sentiment of satiated snobbishness which is needed before he give the consent. The young couple, presumably, are married; the Count goes back to the villa; the gambler is in right with the shots; but what became of the apple woman, no one ever knew...