Word: isabella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner was one Boston dowager who sensed the possibilities of an impregnable social position: with Bernard Berenson at her elbow she shopped Europe for a great art collection and used the Back Bay as a theater in which she played roles from Persian princess to the Bohemian girl. A very readable biography...
...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. An immensely readable biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, one of Boston's most colorful Victorian lady eccentrics. Armed with money, an unfettered imagination and a whim of iron, she kept Boston's newspapers in copy with her antics for half a century - and along the way assembled a collection of great art now housed in the Gardner Museum...
Famous Figure. Isabella was not noted for the beauty of her face. It was plain and rather round. But she had a famous figure, a nimble mind and charm. "To dominate others gave Mrs. Gardner such pleasure," a close associate later recalled, "that she must have regretted the passing of slavery." Actually, she was not a Bostonian but the daughter of a New Yorker who had made millions in importing and iron mining. At 17, she announced her ambition: "If I ever have any money of my own, I am going to build a palace and fill it with beautiful...
...University in Formosa. Cushing's generosity has made him at least as well known abroad as Spellman, and he collects decorations and honorary degrees from grateful recipients "in bunches like bananas." One of the most recent is the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which Spain gave him after he raised $5,000 for the orphaned children of Spanish sailors who died when their ship was lost at sea. "I thought Franco might make me a matador, or something," Cushing says...
Reign in Spain. Carlism began in 1833, when King Ferdinand VII, dying without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some...