Word: bourbon
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...many Spanish kings of the present Bourbon line have suffered from melancholia that last week Grandees of the Spanish Court evinced some uneasiness as King Alfonso XIII continued sunk in brooding, introspective grief for his late mother, Queen Maria Christina, who died just one month...
Engaged. Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, of Paris, onetime U. S. musical comedy star, who in 1923 divorced William Ellis Corey of Manhattan, President of the U.S. Steel Corp. (1903-11); to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bourbon-Orleans, Infante of Spain...
...twelve Cabinet Ministers taken care to be in the Palais Bourbon and cast their votes, the Government's majority of two would have been a minority of ten, necessitating the resignation of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, famed "Savior of the Franc...
...half years of struggle and achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether or not the Government went down...
...Bourbon Morgan. During the U. S. Civil War, Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan of London observed historically to his English banker colleagues...