Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus they paid homage to a lady great in sadness, Marie Charlotte Amelie Augustine Victoire Clementine Leopoldine, daughter of the late King Leopold I of the Belgians, once Empress of Mexico. Her story: At 17 she was the radiant bride of the Archduke Maximilian whose brother was Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary; at 23 Empress of Mexico, set beside Maximilian upon that throne by the Emperor Napoleon III of the French; at 26 a distracted woman, kneeling before Napoleon III, begging him to deliver her husband from the revolted Mexicans, crying when Napoleon III declared he could...
...roused perhaps too late, sent pompous officials about the streets armed with heavy swords. Criers announced that they would cut off the head of any one found making subversive speeches; but, when they passed, the purr of English and Chinese began again...
Married. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of famed Poet-Essayist Matthew Arnold; to Harry Forsyth, grandson of the late William Forsyth, M. P., Q. C., author; in Manhattan...
Died. Stanley Clague, Manxman,* 55, managing director of the "A. B. C.,"? noted advertiser, who started his career as secretary to the late Charles W. Eliot, onetime President of Harvard; following prolonged ill health, in Chicago...
Died. Anson Wood Burchard, 62, vice chairman of the General Electric board of directors, at the home of Mortimer L. Schiff, Manhattan; of acute indigestion. He helped the late Charles Albert Coffin plan G. E.'s policies...