Word: brabant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted "a venereal complaint," he was married to Belgian King Leopold's daughter Stephanie, who described herself as "the rose of Brabant," but of whom her uncle remarked: "Poor Rudolph! His bride has the daintiness of a dragoon...
...town's name, which means "the Duke's wood." perpetuates the memory of the Duke of Brabant, who gave it a municipal charter in 1185. (The odd-looking prefix is the Dutch sign of the possessive case.) The land around 's Hertogenbosch is low-lying and swampy. The Maas is three miles away to the north...
...grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...
...next splendid stop was at a French village near Tours. Gracious as King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want...
Scotsman Ogilvy, born in Britain, then and now a British subject, served the U. S. as a soldier in the Spanish-American War, but never got beyond Jacksonville, Fla. He served Britain as a captain of Brabant's Horse in the Boer War and won the Distinguished Service Order. At 53 he served Britain again in World War I (1914-15) as a lieutenant of Scottish Horse...