Word: astride
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours ticked toward midnight two crises neared. A knock at the door might mean either a trained nurse or a political secretary, bursting with news. Queen Astrid was in labor and highly excited was His Majesty's Swedish mother-in-law. So too were all the Cabinet Ministers. Disruption threatened the Cabinet of Premier Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father...
...hard practical schooling. He has served in the Belgian Senate. He has specialized in the study of Colonial administration. He likes to monkey with engines; he drives his own car. But his hobbies are safer: trout fishing and collecting butterflies. In 1926 he married dark-haired Princess Astrid of Sweden after a courtship that set lady-novelists' hearts aflutter. In order not to attract attention Prince Leopold paid flying visits to Sweden in a third class railway coach, carrying his own bags. People thought he was a new butler. Announcing the engagement, beaming King Albert said...
Brussels housewives still remember how Princess Astrid pushed her own baby carriage up & down the shady Avenue Louise after her little Daughter Charlotte was born...
...Congo, zoologically-minded King Albert will spend a fortnight inspecting the Albert National Park, a mighty game preserve of 825,000 acres conceived by His Majesty when, as Crown Prince in 1899, he visited Yellowstone National Park. The present Crown Prince Leopold and Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium were in the Philippine Islands last week, doubtless conceived many a notion as they were handsomely feted by new, carabao-shooting Governor General Theodore Roosevelt...
...long career he has written 21 books, many papers, is still writing, compiling. He now has seven degrees. In 1929 he was awarded the Rosenberg Medal for his contribution to civilization. He has three children: Charles, 34, executive secretary of the Institute; James Henry Jr., 22, a Princeton senior; Astrid, 17, in boarding school. Son Charles, as energetic as his father, goes to visit all the expeditions every year, traveling mostly...