Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan home writing his last great speech in a language that will prickle the flesh of a clammy World Court issue-perhaps he is preparing his autobiography; the story of a man who might have been President; a man with codes on his lips, with courts beneath his snowy crown, with creeds lurking in his steely eyes...
Imperative Request. Not long ago the General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...
...royal party drove to the Ritz Hotel, Parisians wondered whether Queen Marie would give audience during her stay in Paris to her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, now resident at Paris with his favorite, Mme. Lupescu (TIME, Jan. 18). Her Majesty, astute, kept interest in a possible reconciliation between herself and Carol at fever heat during the week by refusing to affirm or deny that she would...
...away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work to the 'memory' of a great...
...practicing law in New York City. He has served as a regent of the University of the State of New York, and has been president of the American Bar Association. For his work with the American Red Cross during the world war, he was made an officer of the Crown of Italy and was also appointed a chevalier in the Legion of Honor of France...