Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habichtsburg ("Hawk's Castle") stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor...
...name of a new President was set down last week in the voluminous annals of Nicaragua, crammed for centuries with an almost unexampled record of Spanish tyrants and Latin American usurpers. The new President, Señor Adolfo Diaz, was elected by the Nicaraguan Congress in joint session, an assembly so accustomed to being bullied by armed factions in Nicaragua that its acts must always be regarded with suspicion. Apparently President Diaz was elected because he is known to be persona grata to the U. S., which intervened to support him when he was previously elected President...
...Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio Palavincio. These two are fine portraits; St. Martin is better. It is one of the most important works of a man whose intellect has had few equals among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored...
...Finnish Minister to Berlin, of my escape from Germany in 1918, just before the revolution. Dr. Hjelf said that I, fearing for my life, appealed to him, through the Finnish Foreign Office, for protection. He went on to state that he secured for me a diplomatic passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying he knew the passport name of Lindstrom would certainly be mistaken for Lindblom, calmly relates that he dressed me in business suit, felt hat, colored glasses...
...summer night - Turandot, icy still, unwilling to abide by the terms of her own contract, awakened by a kiss. The steps to the throne again - the Emperor and all his people gathered once more to see Turandot lead in Calaf, Prince of the Tartars, and announce his name as Love. Opinions for the most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud...