Word: doorn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...away in Doorn the ex-Kaiser, too, bethought him of the Battle of Tannenberg and recalled that if Hindenberg and Ludendorff were its heroes, it was only because he had sent them there. With magnificent effrontery he wired the President of the German Republic...
...played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the onetime Kaiser fells a modest cord or two each year in Doorn, Mr. Bigelow is indefatigable as a log and kindling splitter at his 120-year-old rustic abode, "Bigelow Homestead," in Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. (TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through...
Wilhelm II welcomed recently to his estate at Doorn the German Monarchist Herr Oldenburg-Januschau. Shortly before dinner Herr Oldenburg-Januschau remarked that it was creditable of Feldmarshall von Hindenburg to have assumed the cares of the Presidency...
Wilhelm of Doorn, flaming-eyed, turned upon his guest, shouted "You are all traitors!" stalked from the room, canceled the dinner. Herr Oldenburg-Januschau ate in the village...
...tortuous mind of Wilhelm of Doorn, still half obsessed by its illusion of Heavenly guidance, is nowhere better revealed than in his Memoirs (Harpers, 1922.) He wrote...