Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Empress Carlotta, known to the Habsburg Court as "Belgian Charlotte " is a sister of Leopold II, late king of the Belgians. She had influence in Vienna after marrying the Archduke Maximilian, brother of the late Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. It was on account of her meddlesomeness that the court hated her and was unmistakably relieved when she departed with her husband to rule Mexico, through the instrumentality of Napoleon III, Emperor of France...
...most brilliant Jews in the Empire. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1902; since that time has held seven important Government posts and was three times a Cabinet Minister. In 1919 he was appointed British Special Commissioner to Belgium. King Albert decorated him with the Order of Leopold of Belgium in recognition of his valuable services...
...Leopold Godowsky, now on a concert tour in Java, has high phrases to speak in praise of Javanese music and the national Javanese instrument, the gamelang. This is a clear-toned string instrument with that beauty of sound that you find in oriental string instruments. People who have heard it speak of its haunting, lingering tunefulness under the fingers of Javanese players...
...Jeritza" (Baron Leopold Popper) : " In Vienna my wife, Maria, Metropolitan Opera star, underwent successfully an operation for appendicitis...
Rumored engaged. Princess Mafalda of Italy, 20, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel, to Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Belgium, 21. "An official announcement is to be made May 10," said a Fascist news agency...