Word: bourbon
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...Gentleman All' is fairly well written. Too much of the dullness of the Southern life has perhaps crept in without bringing with it enough of the charm that commonly attributed to the Bourbon whiskey and the ladies of the South. Joseph Hergesheimer once wrote a book called "Balisand" which pictured a society very similar to Mr. Fitzgerald's, "Balisand" will never be mistaken for the great American novel, yet it is a better book than "Gentlemen...
...rumors quickly spread from Bucharest: 1) That Carol had abandoned all hope of reconciliation with Helen, was trying to arrange a wedding with a member of the house of Bourbon-Orleans of France, "probably the Duchess of Guise." 2) That Carol would be crowned alone, would have a morganatic marriage with red-headed Mme Magda Lupescu. Correspondents realized that even a morganatic marriage with Mme Lupescu would cause the finest series of anti-Semitic outbreaks Rumania has ever seen, that the Duchess of Guise is 52, and married to the Pretender to the throne of France. Married...
...Louis de Bourbon" is a portly old man of 65, blind, living outside Paris at Sannois. His sympathizers believe him to be a descendant of one Karl Wilhelm Naundorff who appeared in Berlin in 1810 announcing that he was the Dauphin. Herr Naundorff explained that he had not died in a Paris prison 15 years before as the world believed, but had escaped in the bottom of a laundry basket...
Herr Naundorff's descendant interested one old lady, a Mme Heitz, so deeply in his case that she advanced him sums aggregating $40,000, always addressed him as "My Liege Lord and Dear White Knight." In return "Louis de Bourbon" issued notes "payable in the near future" when he should have regained his rightful place as France's ruler. Last month Mme Heitz went to a medium who revealed that her King was misappropriating the funds she had lent him. Forthwith she demanded a reckoning...
...Versailles, where the case was tried, the magistrate found that "Louis de Bourbon" was sufficiently sincere, that he had not obtained the money on false pretenses, that "he had acted in perfect good faith in striving to obtain the succession to Louis XVI." Mme Heitz had to be satisfied with...