Word: habsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some art lovers, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez is a Spanish Titian, to others a somewhat dismal virtuoso. But Spain's Habsburg-lipped Philip IV had no doubts about Velazquez' greatness. He took one look at Velazquez' first portrait of him, thereafter refused to let anybody else paint his picture, sat for 14 portraits by the methodical, meticulous court painter...
Archduke Felix, third-string heir to nonexistent Austria-Hungary's nonexistent Habsburg throne, was royally feted by U.S. diplomats in Uruguay, less royally received by Uruguay's powerful, liberal Austro-Hungarian colony...
Austria-Hungary's handsome, exiled Empress Zita turned up in Washington the day after the Moscow Declarations were announced. There her eldest son, Otto Habsburg, pretender to the 25-years-gone Austro-Hungarian thrones and sponsor last year of the abortive Austrian Battalion (29 voluntary recruits), announced importantly that he was ready for anything, might be back in Vienna within a matter of months. Said one Austrian exile: "In America, Otto may still be a question; in Europe, he certainly...
...trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King...
...first time that the thousand-year-old House of Savoy (rulers of Italy since 1861) had broken a contract. In 1915 Vittorio Emanuele had shifted Italy from its alliance with the Hohenzollern and the Habsburg into the Allied camp. Now perhaps he was trying to repeat the past, trying to assure the future for himself and his son, tall, fast-living Crown Prince Umberto...