Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cure. In Sydney, Australia, Dorothy Murphy, suing Leopold Lord for breach of promise, was awarded $1,500 damages when she testified that she had hiccupped for six months after he jilted...
...seized government offices and services in the Czech coup, the lesson was not lost on neighboring Austria. Last week Socialist Minister of the Interior Oskar Helmer banned "action committees," which Communists were trying to form in Austrian unions. His police also broke up a Communist demonstration marching to Chancellor Leopold Figl's office...
...something was about to go wrong. Robert Casadesus has played 100 times in Manhattan. But last week he had a special worry on his mind. This was the first time the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra had ever played one of his own pieces. Only when white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski got the orchestra safely through the opening bars did Composer Casadesus turn back to the keyboard and seem to relax, as he gave Manhattan its first hearing of his third Concerto for Piano and Orchestra...
Arrived: Prince Baudouin, 17-year-old son of Belgium's exiled King Leopold; in Miami, from Cuba. The prince quickly informed the press that he was not interested in girls-he had dropped over to "extend his education...
Died. Caroline Lacroix, Baroness de Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death...