Word: diger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understandable horror of his own bamboo-jointed name: Horst Rüdiger Karl August Ernst Georg Cristoph Fabious von Gugel Brandt und Dippolsdorf. True, it showed his patrician lineage, but it would never squeeze into a corner of his surrealist canvases. So he reduced it to plain Rolf Gugel. Plain Rolf's name is being heard often these days in Germany...
...Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...
Vienna playboy Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who modernized and commanded Austria's Heimwehr, is now a lieutenant in the Free French Air Force, was rapped in the British Parliament last week as "the man who assassinated democracy in Austria...
Hard-eyed, scowling, exiled Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria and leader of the fascist Heimwehr, after many an unsuccessful attempt to raise a pro-Ally Austrian legion, joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Air Force to fight against his onetime friends, the Nazis...
...witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun, he rose and survived to become a staff officer under Count Rüdiger von der Goltz, who in 1918 was sent to help Baron Mannerheim win Finland's independence...