Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fallen king can still fall, Don Alfonso XIII slipped definitely lower last week. One of the richest men and the most powerful monarchist in Spain, sad, grizzled old Count de Romanones, not only broke with his oldtime King but called him in effect a fool for flooding Spain with smuggled copies of a secret manifesto...
Jauntily, after the miscarriage of his plans, Don Alfonso XIII left Paris for a tour of the Holy Land. "This is comic beyond belief!" he chuckled in Jerusalem when correspondents asked if he had signed the manifesto. "This is what I should call taking my name in vain...
...Romanones that the manifesto is genuine, expressed his disgust at the depths of hypocrisy it revealed. It was understood that Count de Romanones and Juan de la Cierva proposed to join forces, founding a new Monarchist Party to elevate as King of Spain someone other than Don Alfonso XIII...
...Street where he designed six windows for the Riverside Cathedral in New York City. The windows were supposed to copy the spirit of the famous delicately traced windows in the Cathedral of Chartres. These famous Grisaille windows in the best lighted church in the world were made in the XIII century and contain over 5000 figures. Goodhue succeeded admirably in this work, although the problem of reducing the scale to fit the more modest proportions of the modern church was difficult. When the windows were set in June, 1929 they evoked praise from all authorities...
...Murray" Butler was graduated by Columbia. He went off to Europe to study in Paris and Berlin, armed with letters to four of the world's most potent men: Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. They gave his international, political, social notions a tremendous push. To them, he recalls, he was just a brash young American ? "a speck of dust." But Butler talked right up to them, made them the nucleus of his enormous collection of friendships, to which, as he grew older, he has added almost every person of national or international...