Word: apponyi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoarse-voiced King Zog of Albania five months ago requested a swank Paris jeweler to send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become...
...donned their cleanest white blouses, Scanderbeg jackets & white-pleated fustanellas, hopped on their scrawny donkeys and jogged over mountain trails to Tirana, their odorous turbulent capital. They came to celebrate the wedding of their 42-year-old King, Zog I, to a half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Mother and father of the Countess, who prefers her Budapest nickname of "Jerry," are the onetime Gladys Virginia Stewart of Manhattan and the late Count Anton Apponyi of Budapest...
...CARL APPONYI...
Julius Nagy-Apponyi of Budapest. Through the jagged mountains of Albania their daughter Geraldine was taken to Tirana, a typically odorous, turbulent Balkan capital...
...forgotten the proud words of the great Hungarian legitimist leader. Count Albert Apponyi: 'The King of Hungary cannot crawl like a thief over the fence in order to ascend the throne of his ancestors...