Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called "legitimate" heir is of course fourteen-year-old Prince Otto, son of the late Karl I, last ruling Habsburg Emperor (reigned 1916-1918). But "Little Otto" is not favored by many Hungarian nobles, both because of his youth and because the Allies might not stomach the restoration of the very prince whose father they overthrew. From this and other technical causes† many Hungarians have turned to the shrewd youthful Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 29, as their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore...
Those near him declared that the expression of the Duce's face did not change. He sat quite still while the mob closed in upon his would-be assassin. Strong hands strangled the youth. Fourteen knives plunged into his flesh. Stripped, beaten to a pulp, dead, his body, unrecognizable, was eventually recovered by the police...
Facing the hardest schedule any Harvard basketball team ever was called upon to meet, the 1926 quintet will open its season on December 17, playing the strong Boston University team. Fourteen games in all complete the list. Yale, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton are the high spots on the schedule...
...Fourteen seconds after the end of the Princeton game, the first CRIMSON football extra came off the press. The leaders of the exodus from the Stadium, running post-haste over the Lurz Anderson Bridge, found awaiting their arrival a line of Crimson news boys brandishing the inky papers...
...last two-week stand at the Century Theatre. Somerset Maugham's story, made into one of the most successful plays in recent years, tells of a jaywalking girl from Honolulu and a fanatical, suppressed missionary who meet on a South Sea island. Miss Eagels, after some fourteen hundred performances has, to all intents and purposes, become Sadie Thompson. Actors, producers, public thundered her a tremendous ovation...