Word: hohenzollern
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Things done last week by Carol II, last reigning Hohenzollern, "by the Grace of God King of Rumania...
Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...
...Wilhelm Hohenzollern II, his wife the Princess Hermine, his son, Friedrich Wilhelm, and a party of ten, motoring between The Hague and Haarlem, Holland, discovered in a ditch, badly smashed, the car in which their servants had preceded them. The servants were unhurt. Later in the day on Kager Lake a speed launch carrying the younger members of the party, blew up, badly burned and bruised two, nearly capsized the yacht Olympia on which the senior Hohenzollerns were cruising...
...heard above Bucharest airdrome, by then brilliantly floodlighted. An army corps and the Prime Minister were at hand. To be ready for all emergencies Bucharest had been placed under what amounted to martial law with General Cenrik Cihoski temporarily appointed Governor of the Capital. Amid much obsequious bowing the Hohenzollern entered a limousine, was driven swiftly to Cotroceni Palace...
...Munich. The captain said that Carol, responding to a telegram from his mother Dowager Queen Marie, had packed up to go and meet her for a "family council" at Sigmaringen in Germany, home of Carol's cousin Prince Friedrich, "head of the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern...