Word: hohenzollern
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Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, hav-ing swallowed a Red Cross pin; former Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor, 83, of Tennessee, in Johnson City, possibly of pneumonia; Sophie former Queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Frankfurt-am-Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...
...family who stuck by Carol in all his marital difficulties, the one of whom he has frequently said "I owe the throne to him"), had so far forgotten himself to marry a commoner! In bed with tonsilitis & bronchitis King Carol hoarsely croaked: "It's an outrage to the Hohenzollern Dynasty...
Reporters cast a speculative eye last week at General Pera Zivkovitch. King Alexander's permanent Premier. Wilhelm of Hohenzollern used to refer to Belgrade as "that nest of assassins." No one has ever accused him openly, but it is a well-known Belgrade legend that 28 years ago Lieut. Pera Zivkovitch was the young officer who unlocked a back door in the palace of his Sovereigns, King Alexander Obrenovitch & Queen Draga, and let in the assassins who killed them in their sleep, thus allowing King Peter I, Alexander's father, to ascend the throne...
...which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and which he made one of the great critical journals of all times. He returned to the U. S. at the outbreak of the War, which he loudly and persistently damned. A badly dressed little man with a Hohenzollern mustache and a bawdy tongue, he found little to praise in America: "Oh, I say, what a dreadful country! What dreadful people! I say, Nellie, bring out the whisky." He edited Pearson's Magazine, got it barred from the mails, abandoned it and went to France to write...
...been fun for the author. It consists of alternating Viereck verse and Viereck prose, chronologically arranged, the prose a commentary on the verse. If you don't mind getting your fingers a little greasy you may pull out many a ponderous plum from this fat Teutonic pudding. "The Hohenzollern family seems to have a talent for writing as well as for ruling. . . . My great-great-grand-uncle, Frederick the Great. . . ." Hohenzollern Viereck, it appears, has also been, if not a great ladies' man, at least a big woman's man. He tells of many a kiss...