Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With habitual gravity and majesty the Queen Mother of the Netherlands returned, last week, to her Summer Palace at Soestdyk, after completing a series of State visits to each of the eleven provinces of Holland. From the Zuider Zee to Zealand loyal Dutchmen had barked gruff cheers. And now good Queen Mother Emma was home in time for a placid celebration of her 70th birthday. Century-old trees, towering above the low, squat Summer Palace, seemed to rustle discreet congratulations to a Queen now almost as venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked...
...Rushing up to the station master she stamped her foot, cried: "I am afraid, Meinheer, that you are negligent. ... I am the Princess of the Netherlands, sole heiress to the Throne. ... I am not accustomed to change trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly that the present Queen Wilhelmina was once heard to exclaim with girlish penitence. "Oh, I've been naughty again! Mother...
Counterbalancing, is a belief, cherished by some branches of the Hoover family that Andrew Hoover, Maryland Quaker, progenitor of the family in the U. S. and the Nominee's great-great-great-grandfather, came to this country in 1740 or before, not from Holland as some have said but direct from Germany. He signed his name Andreas Huber at first. He spoke "high" German. He is thought to have become a Quaker after his arrival...
Captain Herman Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Major James Fitzmaurice, last week were honored by onetime royalty, snubbed by royalty's onetime subjects. Fresh from receptions in Bremen and Dublin, they flew to Doom, Holland, where Wilhelm II stood on the castle roof to wave them farewell with his one sound arm; thence to Cologne, Germany, where the city fathers, Kaiser-hating, failed to appoint a committee of welcome...
When the second day's auction, far less extravagant than the first, had run up the total to $2,032,575, observers took note that the Holland bidders had won back but few of their native glories and that England's representatives had been able to keep only two pictures of primary importance-Rembrandt's Portrait of Maurice Huygens, and Francis Cotes' surprisingly fine Portrait of a Guardsman, which went to the National Gallery. The rest, with the exception of a few that French dealers netted, will probably reach...