Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time all Princesses who had become by marriage Tsaritsas of Russia had been exclusively of German origin for a century and a half. But now this precedent was shattered, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is no question that they were infatuated. But he was stricken with paralysis before the nuptials could take place. On his death bed the Grand Duke Nicholas called in his fiancee and his bull-necked brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, and bade them wed. They obeyed...
With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come
Hungarian ladies, sipping their tea at smart Gerbauld's, or strolling beneath Budapest's pepper trees, are now perfumed with the lesser creations of local perfumers Hungarian, Austrian or German...
...Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, director of the Zeppelin works, and Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry, are calmly enjoying their game of dress as Commander Rosendahl of the Los Angeles looks...
London Show. $50,000,000 worth of orders were placed before the London automobile show opened last week. 45% of the cars exhibited were of British make; the rest were French, German, Italian, Belgian, Austrian, U. S. Cars of seven to ten horsepower, selling from $500 to $1,500, drew the most customers...