Word: louvain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgium. Because Prince von Starhemberg comes of Austria's bluest blood and has always been considered a Legitimist, the pompous little Court of ex-Austrian Empress Zita in Steenockerzeel Castle near Louvain buzzed with a fury of preparation to pack off her handsome son Archduke Otto to Vienna as "Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration...
...Adams Jr., 23, son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy, descendant of John and John Quincy Adams, second & sixth U. S. Presidents; and Margaret Stockton, 19, daughter of Philip Stockton, president of Boston's First National Bank. ¶ To Abbe Georges Lemaitre, professor at the University of Louvain. now lecturing at Catholic University in Washington, D. C., author of the ''expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost...
...wound out of Germany and Von Kluck began his race for Paris and the channel ports. But great events swing upon the most trivial axes. A handful of slow moving men came out to meet the onrushing soldiers and the world came to hear of "little Belgium," of Louvain, and of Albert, King of the Belgians...
...Strange Love of Molly Louvain (Warner), Ann Dvorak...
...Jesuit. No funster is he, although he chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...