Word: amerongen
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...dead men's tales" are always the most interesting! That they are expected to find a ready audience over here is evident, for McClure paid in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars for them--enough to buy several cords of wood for the industrious "hermit of Amerongen". It appears that his Highness has in reality been "sawing wood" all these years and to no idle pecuniary purpose...
Verily, fame is a fickle goddess. For our natures are fearfully and wonderfully made. But more fearfully than wonderfully. Just two years ago, many other-wise sane Americans were employing valuable time which they could have wasted better elsewhere--inventing epigrams! These related to a (with reservations) gentlemen from Amerongen. Their delicate spirit was imbued in such phrases as "Kan the Krazy Kaiser." And at the same time, several million doughboys were promising their Dulcineas a piece of that personage's ear, or a curl from his right moustache. Apparently oblivious of the blissful fact that the "glorious leadership...
...rigid censorship. Yet the names of the players seem always to leak out. Those of von Jagow, von Tirpitz and Kapp cannot fail to stir up uneasy memories. It might be pertinent to recall that Lloyd George has not persuaded the Dutch to give up their royal guest. Amerongen is nearer to the scene of action than was Elba...