Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down the sullen, turgid Danube -blue only to baying, waltzing houris-a royal barge put-putted last week past the great swamps of Braila, near Bucharest. George II, deposed King of the ungrateful Greeks, was motorboating with his unobtrusive father-in-law, King Ferdinand I of Rumania...
...Ferdinand Clet, 70, lay in a hospital ward at Grenoble, France, last week, groaned, snored...
Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony...
...Ferdinand I (Rumania...
Died. Leopold Lojka 40, innkeeper, famed as the chauffeur who drove the automobile which carried Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo to his assassination; at Brünn, Czechoslovakia...