Word: hohenzollerns
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...Vienna reports circulated that Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians would follow the example of her dead husband's sister, Princess Josephine von Hohenzollern, enter a Catholic convent...
Traveling about the country, living on goats' cheese and skewered lamb, Dr. House witnessed the complete independence of Serbia, Rumania and Montenegro; saw a Hohenzollern prince proclaimed Rumania's first king; later saw the Duke of Edinburgh's flighty daughter Marie started on her way to becoming that country's most famed queen. The first Balkan War and the Second came and went, followed by the World War, the Greek Revolution and the birth of Albania but Dr. House kept right on teaching school. Once in 1902 he made world headlines by spending nine weeks hunting...
...Between the team of Huey and the Priest, we have the whole bag of crazy or crafty tricks possessed by any Mad Mullah or dancing dervish who ever incited a tribe or people through illusion to its doom-Peter the Hermit, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sitting Bull, William Hohenzollern, the Mahdi of the Sudan, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued...
...France's Clemenceau had the full support of the U. S. in their effort to hang the Kaiser, until President Wilson found that the U. S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles which reads in part: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality...
...Exalted absentees: homespun Governor General Donal Buckley of the Irish Free State who sent his rugged regrets; and Rumania's buck-toothed Hohenzollern, the bride's "Uncle Carol" who fumed in Bucharest because he was not invited, sent no wedding present...