Word: doorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislative fluke last week made it legally possible for Wilhelm of Doorn to re-enter Germany. The means by which Wilhelm's exile has been maintained is the famed "Kaiser Clause" in the Law for the Defense of the Republic, which expires July 21, making residence in Germany of the onetime ruler dependent on the will of the Reichstag. Since the bill involves a change in the German Constitution, a two-thirds majority is always necessary to renew it. Bickering between Communists and Nationalists last week brought a final vote of 268 in favor...
More interesting was the statement in economist Rudolf Martin's financial compendium, just published in Berlin, that Wilhelm of Doorn is still the richest of all Germans, credited with $152,000,000 in capital holdings. This does not mean that he has much money to spend. Wilhelm Hohenzollern's wealth consists of: A million and a half acres of land (entailed) worth $120,000,000 Castles, palaces, gardens, worth 20,000,000 Furniture, jewels, works of art, worth 4,000,000 Cash settlement from the German government for confiscated property...
...dawn the old German Imperial standard broke out from the flagstaff of House Doorn. As the morning advanced, Burgo master Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Roye arrived with a Dutch choir, proceeded to the Orangerie and staged a birthday serenade to Wilhelm II, 70. Clad in black fur-lined coat and astrakhan cap Wilhelm of Doom listened, seemed to especially enjoy a folk song called "The Bold Spinster." After thanking the choir and the Burgomaster Baron, he alluded to his famed hobby thus...
...Doorn this stock question is still supposed to be answered unctuously and favorably. But August von Mackensen, the hard, the merciless, the man who whipped Rumania down upon bloody knees, answered Host Hohenzollern thus: "There is not the slightest evidence that the people desire Your Majesty's return...
...another thing, Wilhelm of Doorn learned, last week, that Emil Ludwig's savage best-seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...