Word: nies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nie Mehr Krieg...
...fail to see such report? ? on a larger and possibly more important meeting of young people, which occurred the second week of July in Vienna. Young workers of both sexes from many countries, 50,000 strong, met to demonstrate for world peace, for friendship among peoples, their slogan "Nie Mehr Krieg" (never more war). Taken in connection with the remark attributed to Ambassador Dawes, that war depends on the man in the street, this meeting of young socialists becomes truly significant...
Later King Alfonso went to Paris and stayed incognito at a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli-not at the Ritz as is Queen Victoria Eugénie's wont. His Majesty heard of another disaster on the outskirts of Melillo, in Spanish Morocco, where 57 persons were reported killed last week and some 200 injured, when a Spanish arsenal exploded. For the killed or injured Moroccans, however, the King of Spain was not reported to have shed tears...
Worth. Traditionally important is the House of Worth. Founder Charles Frederick Worth came to Paris from London in the middle of the last century, found himself the man of the hour in the attempt of the Empress Eugénie to restore the magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none...
...under the influence of the notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin because he could control-it is said by hypnotism-the haemophilia of the Tsarevitch Alexis. Not until the assassination of Rasputin and the execution of the Romanovs did History have done with that dark incident. Today Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain is said to repose a strong intuitive faith in a certain obscure Catalonian doctor whom she hopes may be able to cure the haemophilia of her first born, Don Alfonso, 21, Prince of the Asturias, and heir to Alfonso XIII's throne...