Word: benno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Last week portly matrons of The Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon to have "frequently eaten heartily, as both are fond of food, and wanted to try the delicacies of different countries." So perhaps it was pace which slimmed Princess Juliana, whose latest pictures show...
...newspaper front page so as to gain greatest possible circulation credit. Top story on the printed rating list, which is consulted when all players have "gone to press," is the abdication of Edward VIII: 1,000,000 credits. Bottom story is Hitler's farewell to Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld departing from Germany to marry Holland's Crown Princess : 0 credits. Penalties are exacted for using libelous material; "rewrites" of "scoops" in papers already gone to press; pressagent commercial blurbs. Posing publicly as players of the game to help its sale when presented last week...
...oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his fiancee, Crown Princess Juliana, and her mother the Queen proudly watched...
...hands. He supports the village band, its school, its hospital and, indirectly, its whole population. In 1930, Hannes Schneider visited Japan for one month at $10,000 to teach its royal family, army officers and students how to ski. This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers is the argument about the Arlberg v. Norwegian technique. In the U. S., where Erling Stromm, ski teacher at the Lake Placid...
...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Benno Bongart, called into court to explain the truancy of their sons Robert, 11, and William, 12, maintained that Robert and William were learning more at home than they had in suburban West Orange's Washington Public School. The Bongarts withdrew their boys in April when they heard that the principal beat one of them. At home Mrs. Bongart, a onetime Hunter College student, teaches them from old history and geography texts, prescribes excerpts from magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers...