Word: habsburgs
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...consideration to their archducal hostess, and, approaching the large, thronelike-chair on which the Archduchess (either Isabella or Augusta) sits, kiss the back of her white-gloved right hand. The left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right glove is to protect Imperial Habsburg flesh from contact with lips of lesser clay. By no means ridiculous, the illegal "Royalty" of Budapest are taken in. deadly earnest by the populace, by policemen who snap to attention as the "Royal"' motors pass, even by His Serene Highness Governor Horthy of the Kingdom of Hungary, who acts...
...rather terrible old lady has been aided by quite the most resolute and grim of Hungarian statesmen, Julius Ritter Gömbös von Jákfa, Minister of War. Soon after his appointment (TIME, Oct. 21), he restored the practice of flogging Hungarian soldiers for the slightest infraction, an historic Habsburg barbarity abolished in 1855 by Franz Josef. Tooth and nail War Minister Combos has fought the restoration of Karl's son, famed "Little Otto." Several times the election of Isabella's Albrecht as King of Hungary has seemed almost a sure thing. But suddenly, fortnight ago, Albrecht sought out "Little...
Last week to Castle Steenockerzeel came the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg who, although no "legitimate heir," has been trying these many years to get elected King of Hungary on his own merits...
...regent (TIME, April 28). They were said to have agreed that-"Little Otto" should marry an Italian princess, and that Italy would back the Hungarian parliament in proclaiming the ascension of "King Otto" on Nov. 20 this year (the day he reaches his majority). To this restoration of a Habsburg, France and her allies (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia) are violently opposed. But unquestionably the people of Hungary-the most monarchist in Europe-want a king...
...confused with his second cousin, Archduke Leopold, Manhattan sausage salesman, onetime Hollywood cinemactor, who figured in the recent furore over the sale of a Habsburg diamond necklace to a U. S. jeweler at considerably less than its official price...