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Word: luxembourgers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside him rides "Her Majesty," Antoinette of Luxembourg and of Nassau, who was 21 when he married her in 1921. has borne him five children. The "Crown Prince'' is 27-year-old Albrecht, only child of Rupprecht's late first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: 'Ware Hohenzollerns! | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...shown in Philadelphia and New York. Nobody thought enough of it to bid the $1,000 Jimmy Whistler was asking. In 1889 Georges Clemenceau, already a figure in French politics, saw it in a dealer's window in Paris and pulled wires to have it bought for the Luxembourg. Two years later the French Government got it for 2,000 francs ($400). In 1926 it was promoted to the Louvre to take its place with Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa as one of that vast repository's prime attractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Butterfly's Mummy | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...their Palais du Luxembourg last week, crusty old Senators belabored the bill giving votes to women recently passed by Deputies in their Palais-Bourbon. "What the women of France need," cried Senator de Las Cases "is not the right to vote but a reputation for being faithful housewives. It is no exaggeration to say that America might have entered the War two years sooner had the women of Paris had a better reputation in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Women of Paris | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...Spurred by a telegram from King Albert, Premier Renkin of Belgium secured the initialing of a Customs Union Pact by the Netherlands, Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, subject to ratification by their parliaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Chancellor Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEING THE WORLD | 6/1/1932 | See Source »

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