Word: almanack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exclusive story of its own under a Page One banner: "PRINCE" MATE OF N.O. GIRL CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...
Inside, a British officer was throwing a party for some of his German friends; he called them "the cream of what is left of German society." The men in black & white, the bejewelled women in long backless gowns were busy dazzling each other and particularly their British host, with Almanack de Gotha chatter about Prince this, Duke that and their big estates...
...present Freedom & Union will not go on newsstands, will sell only to subscribers (at $4 a year). To season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...
...stud book of one of history's most unsuccessful breeding experiments ceased publication last week. The Bolsheviks had liquidated the Almanack de Gotha...
Nearly two centuries ago, the Almanack had started out as a gilded Who's Who of the Holy Roman Empire's better aristocrats. Later, its finely printed pages were infiltrated by important commoners and assorted vital statistics. It wound up as little more than a register of political jobholders and royal unemployed...