Word: hohenzollern
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...nothing about the practical Melba, the Melba who promoted the first taxi company in Australia and made a fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes, many of them priceless, gossipy friendly ones, about such famed folk as Sarah Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped her on a Paris street...
should Dr. Hugenburg succeed in uniting these divergent elements, it would indeed be a political triumph. It is true that the election of Hindenburg and the Munich demonstration indicated that a considerable number of Germans still cherish the memory of the Empire. But since a Hohenzollern restoration is not a part of the Hugenberg plan, his platform will have but little appeal to the monarchists. Nor will the Communists, much as they dislike the present regime, be inclined to range themselves on the side of a reactionary and oligarchic movement...
...Alone in her dismal hotel room, with her small sona neurotic little Hohenzollern, evidencing astounding willfulness for his age-she ... is going on with the suit...
...Longmans, Green & Co.* issued two new volumes of the diaries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa...
During the trip Carol neglected to shave before the ingenious folding washstand provided in the individual compartments of all wagons-lits. The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed." They further added to his troubles by wiring ahead for whole platoons of cameramen. At Paris the last wheeze of the air-brakes was drowned amid the boom of flashlight powders...