Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited the U. S. to join the "new strong powers," presumably sit by while Germany licks Europe, and afterward easily and gently seize Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, other Imperial leftovers. With Teuton historicity, Das Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz, a pillar of the Republican Party in Lincoln's years (who incidentally had been exiled...
...Portugal's famous explorers, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral and Ferdinand Magellan, extended the horizons of the world, Portugal became the great European mart for silks, spices, precious metals and gems from the Indies. Reaching her zenith by 1580, she began rapidly to decline, fell under Spanish rule for 60 years until a revolution in 1640 restored her independence. Napoleon drove her ruler to Brazil in 1807 and in 1822 that country declared its independence. Her possessions plucked away by oncoming nations, she saw her great empire shrink and her prestige wane. Her last king...
...Ferdinand J. AchDorothy Stuhlberg, Lasell Oliver E. Allen Charlotte Whitman, New York William H. Appel Mary Lloyd, Boston Ryo Arai Marjorie Baldwin, Stoneleigh College Shailer Avery Elizabeth Gorman, Winchester Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil...
...Ultimatum" is the story of a Serbian officer and his doting Austrian wife, whom that intangible machine called "statesmanship" stamps as enemies after the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The love of wife and of fatherland, faith to friend and to country, are pitched into battle: and the results are tragical, as may be expected. But they are not altogether convincing, since it is less the stupidity of war than an all around desire for self-sacrifice which brings about the final catastrophe. The piece de resistance of the show is Eric Von Stroheim's Tentenie skull, which, as Germanophobes...
Born. To Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the former Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, daughter of the late Pretender Cyril: their second son; in Berlin. They honeymooned...