Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy of airships...
Tsar Boris of Bulgaria perhaps did not hear, at Sofia, last week, that his father, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand, was seen in Vienna to chase a black cat with oaths out of his hotel bedroom. Other guests testified that Ferdinand, barefoot, clad in nightshirt, pursued cat down corridor...
...Ferdinand is a royal mystic, supposed by superstitious Bulgarian peasants to possess occult powers. Presumably the Mystic Tsar had quarreled with his Black Cat, or someone's else...
...American Club at Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump...
...Ferdinand Foch was early nicknamed the "man of geometrical mind," later the "man of will," lastly the "Man of Victory." As the first he was Chief of the Ecole de Guerre; as the second a General of brilliant, pitiless strategy; and at last he became the Generalissimo of half the World. Of all the Marshals of France Foch is the most keenly intellectual...