Word: hohen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died at the Castelui Palace, in the arms of Queen Marie. "I feel so tired," said Ferdinand, "so tired. . . and yet I feel no pain." Thus six years of acute suffering from a cancerous growth were ended, at last, for His Majesty Ferdinand Victor Albert Mainrad von Hohen-zollern-Sigmaringen, King of Rumania, and successor to the Tsars of Russia as Defender of the Holy Sepulchre...
Engaged. Prince Max von Hohen-berg, son of Serbian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (whose murder was the immediate cause of the World War); to Countess Elizabeth Van Waldburg-Wolfegg...
...over the whole world. Dictatorship of some sort or other is the favorite idea. The only good the War did is to show that a nation, not well armed, is powerless, and that such a nation gets no help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter and physical and chemical devils' work...
During the week the French forces in the Ruhr extended the occupation to Langen and Eschborn. Their extension is in the Mayence district, not in the Ruhr, and is toward the great city of Frankfort. In the Ruhr the town of Hohen-Syburg was occupied. Alll these occupations were carried out as penalties for sabotage...