Word: cristina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet...
...Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina...
...atavistic influences did more and today, if the Spanish in the 18-year-old Prince of Asturias makes him a bullfighting enthusiast, his Anglo-Ger-man conscience revolts and he becomes head of the Cruelty to Animals Society. If the 16-year-old Beatriz and the 14-year-old Cristina adore the toreador, they detest the cruel slaughter of bulls. Thus, the great-grand-children of Queen...
...London to visit her mother, the Princess Beatrice, went the Queen of Spain with her daughters the Infantas Beatriz and Cristina...