Word: gotha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of two projected volumes, Proust: The Early Years is an amazing performance, though few except cultists will regard it as readable. Author Painter has picked up every aristocratic name that the snobbish Proust dropped, and whole pages read like excerpts from the Almanack de Gotha. Relatively free of footnotes, the book is really one gigantic footnote to Proust's masterpiece. When he is not playing the elaborate chess game of fact v. fiction, Author Painter does communicate his passionate curiosity about Proust, and he draws a lively portrait of the sick, sick, sick French society that molded...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...
These words, written by a Belgian nun in the register of St. Catherine's Female Academy at Benicia, Calif., were as important to Louise Hungerford as if they were inscribed in the Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood and the gossiping envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince...
Christmas Every Day. Elsa entertained kings and queens, broke bread with half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just...
...more important than Who's Who in the eyes of many blue-blood Britons is the deeper question : Who was who? For years, the responsibility of cataloguing the ancestors of noble families in Europe and Great Britain was shared by Saxony's famed Almanack de Gotha and Britain's Burke's Peerage.* Of the two, the Almanack was the older and more conscientious, but in 1946, the unfeeling Red army marched into Saxony and put it out of business for good, though carefully carting its presses and files off to Moscow. The burden of keeping Britain...