Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch, brother of Grand Duke Kyrill, self-styled "Tsar of All the Russias" and cousin of the late Tsar, boarded at Cherbourg the liner Olympic which forthwith churned her way through many miles of water United States ward...
Shortly afterwards, "the smiling, swarthy, confident little Socialist from New York," Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, wrote a letter to U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis. He asserted that "this Grand Duke Boris" was coming to the U. S. He wanted Secretary Davis to make sure that the Grand Duke was not likely to become a public charge. Said he; "I believe the department would be justified in ascertaining whether these repudiated, unemployed and shiftless dukes and archdukes are not coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According...
...house was quickly answered. Edward S. Rothchild, President of the Chelsea Exchange Bank, Manhattan, said that Congressman La Guardia's letter was "outrageous." Another characterized the reference to overthrowing the U. S. Government as the "bombastic utterances of a political nonentity." Others made haste to state that the Grand Duke was not a pauper: he was coming with 22 trunks; the Duchess was bringing 100 Parisian gowns; (he was bringing his mother-in-law and a secretary; he had two large bank accounts in Manhattan...
...What do you think of Grand Duke Nikolai's chances of becoming Tsar...
Hardly had this hubbub died down than the Grand Duke arrived, landed. With him were the Grand Duchess, whom Boris married in Paris six years ago; Mme. Rachevsky, mother-in-law; Princess Natalie, niece; Baron Nicholas Crown, secretary. The Grand Duke-a man just over medium height, 47 years old, with a quizzical round face on the top of which grows a fringe of dark hair turning grey and into which is set a pair of jovial, navy-blue eyes-was highly delighted to be in the U. S. Even the assaults of the everlasting newspaper squad could not extinguish...