Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French "throne" is the Duc de Guise, head of the house of Orleans, leader of the Royalist party. Like all pretenders, the Due de Guise is automatically and forever banished from the soil of the Republic. There is another pretender-"Louis XIX, head of the house of Bourbon"-whose claim has not seemed serious enough to warrant his exile but whose activities landed him last week in police court...
...Louis de Bourbon" is a portly old man of 65, blind, living outside Paris at Sannois. His sympathizers believe him to be a descendant of one Karl Wilhelm Naundorff who appeared in Berlin in 1810 announcing that he was the Dauphin. Herr Naundorff explained that he had not died in a Paris prison 15 years before as the world believed, but had escaped in the bottom of a laundry basket...
...dock their craft, disembark, surround the scene of activity. When one of the big trucks started to leave, out from hiding jumped Officer Beach, fired a shot in the air, precipitated a scuffle which netted the U. S. 22 prisoners, a score of knives & pistols, $60,000 of bourbon whiskey and champagne...
...clerk and a mendicant monk were taken from a train at Prague last week, charged with high treason against the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Old world diplomats studying the case grinned in their beards, figuratively doffed their cocked hats to dowdy, indomitable Zita of Bourbon-Parme, ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor...
...Habsburg cause-from able, eagle-beaked Ignaz Seipel, twotime Chancellor of Austria, to the last lackadaisical Archduke-she has put to work. When Archduke Albrecht of Hungary formally renounced his aspirations to the throne two months ago (TIME, June 9), when Zita's brother, Prince Sixtus de Bourbon- Parme was given a secret and important interview with one of the most important opponents of Habsburg restoration, Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia, foreign correspondents felt that the November restoration of "Little Otto" was almost certain...