Word: hohenzollern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral von Schroeder...
...General Hans von Seeckt, organizer and first commander of the German Reichswehr?post-War military machine. He resigned at the request of Allied military observers in 1926. Official reason: for allowing a Hohenzollern prince to take part in German Army maneuvers...
Most U. S. news organs and some U. S. news-services put a wrong slant on the story. To the exclusion of other truths it was reported that no Hohenzollern was present at the Death, that a Prussian adjutant of the ex-Kaiser had barked: "The attendance of His Majesty at the funeral is wholly out of the question...
...kept in telephonic touch with the hospital up to the last moment, sent a wreath to the funeral, appeared more than most of his entourage to have forgiven Princess Victoria, once his "Little Vickie"* and favorite sister, for the shame and ridicule she brought upon the House of Hohenzollern by marrying Subkoff?a gigolo...
...last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...