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Spain. Speaking at a luncheon of the Spanish Club of London, interrupted repeatedly by shouts of "Long live the King!" King Alfonso said: "Things in Spain are going satisfactorily, which is proved by my presence here. Let's be optimistic. We have been through plenty of dark days. The dawn is breaking. Spaniards must lay aside their political strife. That is my mission, namely, to find a common meeting ground so as to discover the means of developing our wonderful resources...
...Henderson, & de Gersdorff whose clients include Thomas F. Ryan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co.; and Agnes (Huntington) Cravath, onetime opera singer; after 32 years of married life.* In the actual language of the press of the '90s, he, "a devoted lover, a strapping fellow with sweeping mustachios of dark brown" impatiently climbed a 20-ft. ladder of the steamer Teutonic to meet his lady...
...with a holy man and begun the legend of Manuel, making him out ridicuously admirable for posterity, as a pious widow should. Gonfal of Naimes is told to go southward and does so, becoming a champion of misadventure among the Transcendentalists of Inis Dahut, enjoying the favors of their dark queen, Morvyth, while younger, less sensible men scour the earth for some marvelous token that will win her hand...
...mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows shed on purple hills...
...flying speck vanished away from the aerodrome at Le Bourget, outside Paris. They saw it pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart...