Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The new Empress she had always disliked, principally because she was a German, and perhaps because she still harbored memories of the war of 1864, in which her father, King Christian IX, lost the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg to the Austrians and Prussians. Later her abhorrence of the...
In 1917, after the abdication, she, like so many of the Imperial family, left the country secretly and returned to her native land, Denmark, where she has since been resident. When the ghastly news of the fate of the Tsar and his family convulsed the world with disgust and loathing...
Meantime, former Imperial Russian Ambassador to France, M. Maklakov, called upon M. Herriot to hand over the Embassy buildings. M. Herriot told M. Maklakov that he was a private citizen and said that the Embassy was automatically the property of the Bolshevik Government; therefore, M. Herriot could not receive the...
This kind of thing, of course, flows as logically and as naturally from William's brain as does milk from a ripe coconut. Real touches of the ancient Imperial and Royal bombast are contained in the following excerpts:
Last week, Thamar Karsavina, famed Russian dancer, premiere danseuse at the Imperial Ballet at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), made her first appearance in the U. S. at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. On the same night, another Russian lady, at another theatre, was filling the Manhattan engagements of what is declared to...