Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French and British forced to abdicate in 1879. He is 55 years of age, became Sultan of Egypt on October 9, 1917, and married Princess Nazli on May 24, 1919. He is a man of large stature; handsome after the manner of Egyptians; inordinately proud of a mature Kaiser moustache; of considerable intelligence, but with pronounced leanings to despotism, believing that his subjects should heed the Spanish proverb: "With King and Inquisition . . . hush...
...antique temple at Potsdam the second anniversary of the death of the late ex-Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was commemorated by a memorial service, at which many members of the royal family were present. Many floral tributes were sent, including one from the ex-Kaiser. All day long Loyalists and Nationalists poured into the building to visit the grave...
...dedication of the Tempelhofer Field-once the parade ground of the ex-Kaiser's famous guard regiments -as Berlin's airport, members of the municipal government went up in eleven airplanes. The eleventh machine crashed on landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing...
...over a molehill." Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince: "I had my photograph taken on my solitary Dutch isle-a clear profile against a dark background of clouds. When it was shown at a meeting of telephone girls at Flensburg they passed a resolution saying I should become their next kaiser...
...daughter is engaged to Wilhelm Jenecke, a young man in the Foreign Office. She has an ex-saddler for a father and her fiance's father used to make the Kaiser's boots...