Word: leopold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bismarck R. Pinchback, namesake of Otto Edward Leopold, Empire-forger, died last week. He had the distinction of being the son of the only Negro who ever acted as Governor of Louisiana. His father, Pinckney Benton Stewart, as President of the State Senate and Lieutenant Governor, ruled Louisiana for two months (December 1872 through January 1873) during the impeachment trial of Governor Henry Clay Warmoth. It was at the time of the carpet-bagger-scalawag régime, when President Grant was maintaining a Republican state government in power by force of arms. Histories call Pinchback a good...
Died. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Mary Amelia, 65, eldest daughter of the late King Leopold II of Belgium, and niece of Mad Princess Carlotta; at Wiesbaden, alone, of double pneumonia. Heavily in debt she died unconscious of the fact that the law courts of Belgium had awarded her 2,000,000 francs...
...that one Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of a free night art school which has celebrated its 25th anniversary, was the winner for 1923 of the Philadelphia award ($10,000) presented annually by me to that person who gives Philadelphia the most distinguished service. Previous winners of my award are Leopold Stokowski, orchestra leader, and Dr. Russell H. Conwell, President of Temple University...
...married off to a drunken Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, twice her age. At 40 she accepted a brilliant Austrian cavalry officer (Count Mattachich) as her lover. After a duel and with the assistance of Emperor Francis Joseph, her lover married her. He finally died of drug. Meanwhile King Leopold disowned and endeavored to disinherit Princess Louise, with the result that she spent most of her later years at law. But Mattachich's name was on her lips at death...
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium: "People in Brussels are saying that I and my boy Leopold, Crown Prince, will lose a brilliant golf partner when U. S. Ambassador Henry Prather Fletcher is transferred down to Italy...