Word: hohenzollerns
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...choosy Balkan Prince had the last laugh on the proud Emperor of Holy Russia. By 1918 Nicholas Romanov had lost his job and his life: by 1930 not only was Carol Hohenzollern very much alive, but after four-and-a-half years of self-exile, he was back in Bucharest and able truthfully to describe his profession to Rumania's census-takers as "mostly a king," secondarily a "farmer." The Tsar lost his throne primarily because he did not know his job. Rumania and the world have become gradually convinced that Farmer-King Carol thoroughly knows...
...first part of the week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want...
...Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing her before every public appearance. Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm called her to him after a performance and impulsively gave her his diamond stickpin, adorned with the Hohenzollern crest. She had a room filled with some 100 gold and silver mugs, gold placques, decorations, certificates. Sonja had almost everything she wanted-but not quite everything. She had a consuming desire to be a movie star...
Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany...
...Warlord and ex-Kaiser. Last week Adolf Hitler brushed this sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom...