Word: mecklenburg
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...good woman of plain tastes; she has an Eastern empire and a fat Prince Consort; she is the Queen Victoria of today; she was last week in Paris for the first time in 19 years-Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Hon. LL.D...
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) was born in a Mecklenburg parsonage, apprenticed to a grocer at 14 after a sketchy schooling. Business was Heinrich's dish; he prospered so exceedingly that soon he was supporting his family, writing them how they were to behave. Business took him all over Europe, to the U. S. (he made a small fortune in California, became a U. S. citizen), to Russia, where he lived many years and made a disastrous first marriage. Schliemann's hobby was languages. At 33 he spoke 15 tongues but was concentrating on ancient Greek...
...which any insubordinate gangster would be expelled from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...
Genially the Prince-Consort, Henry Duke of Mecklenburg, waddled in, sniffed the blue atmosphere knowingly, relieved the last traces of maidenly embarrassment by proffering cigarets from his own case...
...understood that Mecklenburg later expressed to Her Majesty the opinion that their daughter, who is now of age, is old enough to smoke, that the great Queen is pondering some relaxation of her Court smoking rule...