Word: franziska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been carried out of the cellar and across Russia into Rumania. No Tchaikovsky ever showed up to verify the tale, though "Anastasia" claimed to have married one of them. She found many friends to champion her cause, even after one enterprising German journalist discovered that a Polish girl named Franziska Schanzkowsky had disappeared from a Berlin boarding house shortly before the young woman's discovery in the canal, and suggested that she was the same girl...
Died. Princess Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christiana Helena, 84, last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria, oldest member of Britain's royal family and longtime grande dame of London society, whose autobiography. My Memories of Six Reigns, was published last month; of bronchitis; in London...
...Rhee married Franziska Donner, an Austrian whom he had met while attending a League of Nations meeting in Geneva. Twenty years younger than Rhee, Franziska was attractive and chirrupy. She managed efficiently her impractical husband's finances. Said Rhee in 1941, "When I married a foreign lady, my family was very displeased, but they found out it was a perfect marriage." At parties, however, Rhee has been heard to tell Mrs. Rhee, "Now hush. You have talked enough...
...Rhee and Franziska moved to Washington, where Rhee acted as U.S. representative of the Provisional Government and arbiter of all Korean activities in the U.S. They lived simply, bought a twelve-room stucco house on 16th Street only after advisers suggested that it would be a good idea to have a reasonably impressive establishment. Rhee, who drank no Western liquors and smoked only an occasional cigarette, avoided Washington's cocktail party set. Most of his time was spent in attempts to interest the State Department in the Provisional Government and Korean independence. Even after World War II began...