Word: kaiserin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Princess Hermine, 59, who married Germany's late exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, a year after the death of his Kaiserin, Augusta Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely...
...After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam. Raged his wife, sickly Kaiserin Augusta-Victoria: "Liebknecht and his harlot, Rosa Luxemburg, camped three nights in the Imperial bedroom - oh, the blasphemy...
George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 88th birthday with advice on How to Care for Babies. In the London Times he compared the late Kaiserin Augusta's model Berlin nursery with shanty homes in Ireland's Connemara: "Under the ideal Berlin conditions the infants died like flies while in Connemara there was no [infant] mortality rate because children never died there. . . . The difference was due to the fact that in Berlin the nurses tidied up the children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged...