Word: bourbonized
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...near Krzemieniec was one of Poland's greatest landlords, Prince Janusz Radziwill, president of the Polish Red Cross and head of one of the four most ancient and historic families in Poland. Captured near Lublin was a remote cousin of the former King of Spain, Prince Gabriel de Bourbon-Siciles. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law, Prince Andrzej Lubomirski, son of the first Polish Minister to the U. S., managed to escape to Rumania, as did scores of other landed bigwigs. Said...
Five months ago the "Nationalists" won the Spanish Civil War. They were as strange a mixture as can be found in a Catalan bouillabaisse: Bourbon Generals and aristocrats, plutocrats, devout and royalist Carlist Requetés, radical Fascist Falangists, Moors, Germans, Italians...
...crown. The picture shows Philippe as something of a New Dealer, eager to abolish the salt tax and dress up the peasantry. But judging from the history of Louis XIV's reactionary reign (1643-1715), France never felt the difference, must have switched bottles without changing its Bourbon...
...Interpreters could think of no provocation for Mussolini's sarcastic phrase "convivial vociferation," except the facts: 1) that Senator Pittman sometimes mixes good Bourbon with his statesmanship; 2) in December he abruptly announced...
...revolutionary turnover. Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king who was more bourgeois than Bourbon, with a wide stripe in him of poor but honest artisan...