Word: hohenzollern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat was Caporetto (1917). Never can the fact be lived down that on that field some 265,000 Italians were taken prisoner with more than 3,000 guns. Flushed with victory, the eagles of Habsburg and Hohenzollern screeched the impending doom of Italy...
...maker of these safe but sizzling statements, last week, was German Celebrity Dr. Emil Ludwig, 47. He stepped off the Majestic with his handsome wife, espoused in South Africa when he was 22. Throughout the U. S. his Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers, are best selling biographies...
Another plate, showing a Prussian Eagle, says that the Hohenzollern Collection, in commemoration of the visit of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia on March 6, 1902, in behalf of His Majesty the German Emperor, was also a result of Professor Coolidge's generosity...
...censorship cloud, it being a punishable offense to mention Prince Carol's name, either orally or in writing (the newspapers overcome the difficulty by leaving blank spaces for his name), the court took no objection to it, speakers on both sides referring to him as Prince Carol of Hohenzollern...
...Since King Ferdinand's career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their...