Word: maximilians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mexican Indian was Manuel Ponce who contributed Chapultepec, a suave Frenchy picture of the cypress woods which surround the castle in Mexico City where the ill-fated Maximilian once lived. The cowboy was Harl McDonald, now a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, who meant his Santa Fé Trail to describe the trek of New England pioneers across the blistering desert. The McDonald pioneers were not a hardy lot and their mood, more often than not, was touched with the Russian melancholy of Tchaikovsky...
...Vienna last week there was talk of only one thing, that Archduke Otto, 21-year-old exiled pretender to the Austrian Throne, was about to inherit a greater fortune than any other man of 1934. For a week Duke Maximilian von Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off the World War in 1914, had been conferring with onetime Chancellor Otto Ender about the restoration of Habsburg properties confiscated during revolution. Last week their plans were well under way. To Otto, as head of the house, will go Habsburg jewels and plate, Habsburg stockholdings, most of which...
Each plate in the set, which was conceived after the Lincoln volume was contemplated, is a print made from the original negative and pasted in. Some of the figures in the rest of the set include: Henry Clay, Queen Victoria, "Boss" Tweed, John Jacob Astor, Emperor Maximilian of Maxico, and Oscar Wilde...
...rattling his sabre under the tremulous nose of France, a German professor stuck his finger into the dead corpus of the Sanskrit language and pulled out a word that was to kindle the fires of scientific controversy for many a long year to come. The word that Friedrich Maximilian Muller introduced to the Western world was Aryan, which in Sanskrit means nothing more than "noble...
...State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton I decreed himself Protector of Mexico. He dropped this title after ill-fated Maximilian's brief reign, remarking that "It is impossible to protect such an unsettled nation...