Word: riverae
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...sons he left behind in Spain had adequately defended their father's honor last week, their swords would have been dripping with the gore of half the artillery officers in Madrid, for these gentry, who hated Primo de Rivera, seldom refer to him in public today without an oath plus an expectoration...
...precisely infirm, perhaps, but paunchy, soft, and comparatively defenseless is Citizen Miguel Primo de Rivera, onetime Dictator of Spain, now with his daughters sampling the delights of Paris...
Entering a Madrid cafe one evening last fortnight, Lieutenant Miguel Primo de Rivera bustled up to General Queipo de Llano, recently author of an "insulting" letter to the onetime Dictator. Serene, the General sat at a corner table, elegantly sipping deviled coffee (with brandy), secure in the belief that a mere lieutenant would not dare violently to resent the insult of a general...
...usual in Spain it was a point of "Honor" that finally pricked Dictator Primo de Rivera in his political vitals, caused a draining of his Power which he himself has feared and hinted at in nervous, plaintive statements for months...
...Cabinet. Jaunty, rich, immensely popular, as fond of champagne cocktails as the King, is famed Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba (TIME, Dec. 2). Well known to be His Majesty's closest crony, the Duke was recently rumored as a successor to Primo de Rivera, who said at the time "I would never stand in the Duke of Alba...