Word: bourbon
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...Speaker," said Will Thorne. British Laborite Member of Parliament, last week, "I wish to ask whether the former ruler of Spain should not be referred to as ex-King Alfonso, or Mr. Bourbon in these debates...
...respectable groom for Dorothy Jordan. She is the poetic, crinoline type of heroine whom no one can associate with sinful doings. Meighan is all right in his role, though too often his lines are sappy. Most tiresome shot: Albright registering the fascination he finds in a Bourbon bottle...
...Gleeful Labor M. P.'s called Alfonso XIII "Mr. Bourbon, late of Madrid" in a lively debate on the ex-King's status last week. Although Great Britain has recognized the Spanish Republic, George V insists that Alfonso XIII be called "King Alfonso" and thus far the British Government has done...
Paris, the city that decapitated one pair of Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much...
Republic of '73. Ancient Maria Isabel is one of the few living Spaniards who remembers vividly Spain's first Republic. In 1873 indomitable Maria Isabel (her father bore the surprising name, for a Bourbon consort, of Francis of Assisi) was a young woman of 22, already two years a widow. In 1868, the year of her marriage, her mother Queen Isabella was driven from the throne by an army mutiny. Liberals then proudly announced that the "spurious race of Bourbon" had disappeared forever...