Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great-great-grandson of Britain's Victoria, Philip Glücksburg was born on the Island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. In 1863 his grandfather, Prince William of Denmark, had become Greece's King George I. Philip was sixth in line to the Greek throne. But a year after Philip's birth, his uncle, King Constantin, was tossed off the throne. Philip, his parents and his sisters* became exiles. With his family, Philip sailed to England, where his mother's father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had gained fame in the days before World...
...wait," said the police. Twenty minutes later they carried off Tsakolos. An hour later he was at Piraeus, headed for exile on an Aegean island...
Last week, after his fifth try (this time on the Queen Elizabeth) 20-year-old David was on New York's Ellis Island, waiting to be deported again. And Minnie, now 22, was still waiting, convinced that "he'll make it yet." Said David, threatening to stow away again & again: "I'll never marry anyone else...
...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...
Elliot Paul is a literary handyman who once announced that he had found Paradise and went to live there. When his paradise (the village of Santa Eulalia on the Balearic island of Iviza) was bombed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Paul got out and wrote the moving Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Six years later, wearing his nostalgia for Paris on his sleeve, he hit the bell again with The Last Time I Saw Paris, a gamy, garlicky recollection of Left Bank life. Now he is going back where he came from. Linden...