Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To King Farouk of Egypt, 18, and his 17-year-old wife, Queen Farida: a daughter, their first child; in Alexandria, a week after the usual false alarm. Name: Ferial (Arabic for "Light...
Born. To Allan Henry Hoover, 31-year-old California rancher and younger son of Herbert Hoover, and his wife, Margaret Coberly Hoover: a son, their first child, fourth grandchild of the ex-President; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Died. Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria, Queen of Norway, 69, sister of Great Britain's late King George V, last surviving child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...
Engaged. Princess Maria, 23, youngest child of the King & Queen of Italy, provisionally engaged for the last four years to Archduke Otto, Austro-Hungarian Pretender, on condition that he regain his nonexistent throne; now that all hope is gone, to his uncle. Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, 38; in Rome...
Bemelmans was a Bavarian problem child. When he failed to pass the first grade of a school for dunces he was sent to the Tyrol to work in the inn of his prosperous Uncle Hans, whom his grandfather, a big brewer, called the "other Lump." The first Lump was Bemelmans' father, a Belgian painter who ran away with Ludwig's French governess. Uncle Hans likewise despaired of little Ludwig, whom he called "Lausbub" (lousy boy, or Katzenjammer kid), sent...