Word: eugenic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens-dorff-Pouilly and Pallavicini ("Imperial Highness!"); and the new arrival's cousin, the Archduke Anton and his wife Princess Ileana of Rumania. For it was the best beloved of the archdukes, old Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernard Felix Maria, grand master of the Teutonic Order, chevalier of the Orders of the Golden Fleece, the Black Eagle, the Seraphim, etc. And before his arrival in Vienna he had renounced nothing of his imperial heritage...
...Eugen went to St. Stephan's Cathedral and heard mass, then walked to the palace of the Teutonic Order, then to another church to pray. When he saw troops of little girls in starched white dresses with paper flowers in their hair, it seemed a good omen. It was the first Thursday after Whitsunday, Vienna's traditional day for confirmations. Said he: "I have returned as a private person and I am glad to be able to spend the eventide of my life in the Fatherland." The Government announced that his reception in Vienna was thoroughly unofficial...
...annual dinner of the Deutscher Verein held in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening was in honor of Professor Eugen Knchnemann. E. F. Hanfstaengl '09, presided...
...assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs for six hours. The favorite substitute story was that the officers had intended to kill only Mile Lupescu, because of her "eternal intriguing...
...sure of little else. Romance had already induced one of his brothers and two of his grandsons to renounce their right of succession to one of the few good thrones left in Europe. Last week it took a third grandson, 22-year-old Prince Bertil Gustaf Oscar Charles Eugen, Duke of Halland, Chevalier of the Order of the Seraphim, third son of the Crown Prince. Bertil's eye had fallen on one Christina Brambeck, yellow-haired young daughter of a Swedish Army captain. He had told his older brother Sigvard about it before Sigvard swept up his own commoner...