Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens-dorff-Pouilly and Pallavicini ("Imperial Highness!"); and the new arrival's cousin, the Archduke Anton and his wife Princess Ileana of Rumania. For it was the best beloved of the archdukes, old Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernard Felix Maria, grand master of the Teutonic Order, chevalier of the Orders of the Golden Fleece, the Black Eagle, the Seraphim, etc. And before his arrival in Vienna he had renounced...
...command of the Ross was Captain Oscar Nilsen, who began his whaling under the man who saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell...
...saying he would return in an hour. When he failed to return after several hours, the frightened footman did not think to step into a telephone booth at nearby Marche-les- Dames. Instead, with an impulse toward secrecy, he drove a long way to the chateau of Count Anton de Wiart, and from there telephoned the royal palace at Brussels. The two court officials who got the message drove out to Marche-les-Dames to search for the King. It was not until 2 a. m. that the searchers found him. Meanwhile three conflicting stories had been given...
...Lower Broadway. The musicians stood up to play then. Several chosen for their "appearance and address" acted as ushers, wore white gloves until the Society discovered it could save $4.75 if they went barehanded. Never has a Philharmonic concert been canceled. Only two have been postponed, one when Conductor Anton Seidl died suddenly, the other when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Radio has made the Philharmonic the world's most widely heard orchestra. Columbia Broadcasting System figured that 9,000,000 listened to Toscanini's birthday concert, the 2,981st concert that the Philharmonic has given. For its artistic...
...Habsburgs is to allow Karl's body to be brought back to take its place among his ancestors in the Capuchin Church in Vienna, and to repeal the law exiling all who do not renounce their royal rights. One prominent Habsburg was in Vienna last week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass meeting last week, the Princess wearing a little Styrian hat with the Heimwehr feather and green ribbon. Speaking rapidly in German with a British accent she said...