Word: ducal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a triangle between Remich, Modorf and Schengen in her southeast corner. She shut down her big radio station, lest she be blamed for propaganda broadcast by others on its wave length, and banned the playing of radios and phonographs in public. On All Saints' Day, the Grand Ducal Army (1,000 men, plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted...
Once Is Enough (by Frederick Lonsdale; produced by Gilbert Miller). Ten minutes after the curtain rose last week on Once Is Enough, nobody in the audience could have sworn that it was not 1928. For a Frederick Lonsdale comedy, full of fishwife manners but ducal breeding, was unhurriedly finding its stride. Not since 1930 (Canaries Sometimes Sing) had a Lonsdale play softly crackled on Broadway, but most of the audience could probably remember Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning...
...Duke had escaped by special train from Shantung Province when the Japanese marched in fortnight ago, blasting the ducal seat near the Sacred Mount Taishan, where some 10,000 descendants of the Sage are buried. In 1936 the Confucian Society of Japan got the boy Duke to come to Tokyo and dedicate a shrine to the Sage. Ever since there have been rumors that Japan was persuading the Duke to let her set him up as puppet ruler of China...
When tragedy comes to the German grand ducal House of Hesse it strikes with all its fateful weight. First great blow to the ancient German family was the discovery that it had contributed to the spread of the dread blood disease, hemophilia. Marriage of two princes of Hesse to Princess Beatrice, Princess Alice, daughters of England's Queen Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only...
...founders of the modern architecture movement in Europe, Gropius directed the famous Grand Ducal School at Weimar, Germany from 1918 to 1928 and practiced in London for a few years before coming to the University last spring. He is especially noted for his work in industrial and housing projects...