Word: leopold
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...from sparing The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina, Nazi invaders dashed straight for her capital, drove her to refuge in England. Taken to London by a British destroyer, she was met and kissed by King George, welcomed to Buckingham Palace's Belgian wing (so called because Leopold I always stayed there in Victoria...
...other singles matches, Johnny Palfrey outclassed Snow 6-1, 6-2; Harris Westheimer beat out Willis 6-1, 6-3; and Chet Legg outclassed Leopold...
...other nations wondered what his reward for being a model modern monarch would be-whether Belgium would be saved from the Nazi juggernaut or go down to bloody defeat and national extinction. If the former, he could thank his Allies. If the latter, it would be chiefly because King Leopold, gentleman and sportsman, was (like most Western World democrats) unconditioned to survive in a world containing Adolf Hitler...
...seemed to realize that he had made the worst speech of his career and one unworthy of a wartime Prime Minister. For the rest of the afternoon and far into the evening he sat and listened to critics who, beginning with Labor Leader Attlee and ending with insurgent Conservative Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, became more & more insistent that he resign. Louder grew the applause with each new attack on the Government. But the greatest ovation of the day went to long-dead Oliver Cromwell, with whose angry words to the Long Parliament of 1640-53 Insurgent Amery closed...
...card from Glenview, ILL. signed "Hal and Olive"; unwittingly appeared to have knocked his masquerade into a cocked hat. Glenview (pop. 1,886), 20 miles from Chicago, is too small for secrets. Hal and Olive were promptly discovered to be Harold and Olive Kennicott, longtime friends of one Edward Leopold Delaney, with whom they had corresponded in. Berlin...