Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they arrived to hear King Zog, 42, formally announce that he will soon take Geraldine, 22, as his Queen. She once won a beauty contest, recently has worked in the Hungarian National Museum, selling postcards, but in Albanian eyes her chief attraction is that her grandfather was once Court Chamberlain to Kaiser Franz Josef for whose hoary whiskers and mighty Habsburg name they had if little love, at least an ominous respect...
...Royal Chamberlain handed the bride's father an envelope containing a check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling monologues or rattled the ghost of Cromwell as he did at previous Anglo-Irish meetings...
Partition. Both sides were forewarned that the question of a united Ireland would prove the stumbling block of the session. "The British Government," purred Prime Minister Chamberlain, in opening the parley, "would be happy to see Ireland reunited, but only with the consent of Ulster and only as the result of a direct agreement between the two governments now existing in Ireland.'' "Thirty-two counties* or nothing," was de Valera's firm retort. But there was a diplomatic gleam in his eye as he added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment...
...Geneva the 100th session of the Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...