Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least one of the valuable arts learned in the late war, that of hiding military equipment under a pleasing mantle of twigs and greenery, seems not to have been forgotten. It may be only a coincidence that at the same time that the name of the fiery old Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is mentioned for chancellorship by the German Nationalist Party, news of a peculiarly pacific character is circulated on the doings of the erstwhile Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the figure-head of the Monarchists, who is said to have enrolled for a series of agricultural lectures at Breslau University...
...languages. A short period in Brussels devoted--to the history and the art of the 'Nether'-lands will be followed by two months at the Sorbonne in Paris, where lectures will be mostly in French. During April, the school will be in Darmstadt, Germany, under the supervision of the Grand Duke of Hess, and Count Herman Keyserling, the founder of the school of Philosophy at Darmstadt. Philosophy German history, science and the arts will be studied hers. The School will be in Italy in May where lectures will emphasize art, ancient and medieval history and the life of the Mediterranean...
...number of arrests of all classes in the last six weeks does not exceed 100, the majority of whom probably will soon be released. Most prominent among these are seven members of the late Prince Golitzyn's family, who were arrested in Leningrad [Petrograd] for corresponding with the Grand Duke Cyril, one of the claimants to the ! Russian throne...
Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife Princess Irene, second cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, steamed from Manhattan on the good ship Aquitania...
Asked if he were in sympathy with the Grand Duke Nicholas who is trying for a restoration of the Romanovs in Russia, the Prince replied: "No! The Duke's ambitions are political; my ambitions are humanitarian-the aid of the distressed Russians...