Word: kaisers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days later, no Great Power having protested, sap of courage rose in the Schuschnigg Cabinet. For the first time since the War, they boldly revived Kaiser Franz Josef's habit of ordering on a given day "spring parades" of all his troops in every provincial capital of Imperial Austria...
...Maintenance Department spent the day looking for a worthy derrick to lift former Kaiser Wilhelm's statue back on the pedestal so that is can continue its silent exertions. Success, however, refused to rear its happy head...
...data on that high bourgeois royalty, Edward of Wales might better have walked through Schönbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard by. Katharina Schratt was a popular Viennese actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
After the Senate rebuffed the President, Secretary of State Lansing hastily cabled that "the United States will not at present support any demand for the extradition of the ex-Kaiser or participate in any way in his trial should it occur...