Word: riverae
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...some weeks distinguished medical consultants have been anxiously in attendance upon the Queen Mother Margherita of Italy, at her villa near Bordighera, famed and balmy Italian Rivera resort...
...despotism ever erected has permanently withstood the shifting gales of fortune. One wonders whether the present structures will be peacefully razed by their liberally minded builders or tumble sanguineously, undermined by armed rebellion. If Mussolini, de Rivera, and Pangalos approach in wisdom Plato's ideal rulers, they will retire gracefully when they have set their respective lands in order. Byron sings of Miltiades...
From Madrid, Premier Primo de Rivera sent out a letter to the President of the Press Association. He expressed the wish that newspaper publishers combine in the publication of a collective newspaper in every town on Sunday. A dictator's command is best expressed as a wish...
...Significance. Observers noted that the new Government has announced its intention of retaining the present censorship of the Spanish press, and opined that it will keep an all but dictatorial checkrein upon national activities. None the less Premier Primo de Rivera made statements which were interpreted as foreshadowing the resuscitation, "by early June," of the suspended Constitution and Cortes (Parliament). He remarked: "All will be made known as the times become opportune...
...military junta made up of officers of de Rivera's victorious faction...