Word: parma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved to his son's estate near his native Genoa. Later he was taken to Parma, where he occupied successively three different graves. Finally in 1926 Genoa got him back. Last week that city gave its fiddling son a memorial celebration...
Marie-Adélaïde refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
Plain Princess. Under the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's younger brother), Luxembourg prospered again, until at the outbreak of World War II it was a thriving little country of rich peasants, rich merchants, rich industrialists. It banks for much of Europe, is headquarters of Orbed, big European steel cartel, ranks as tenth steel-producing country of the world. It manufactures also leather and beer. Were it not for its fear of both friends and foes-which can hardly be told apart-Luxembourg would be a perfect Ruritania...
Some Italian "units" (whose strength-probably trifling-was kept a military secret) reached Helsinki. Prince Aage of Denmark, who once fought with the French Foreign Legion, volunteered, as did his brother-in-law, Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma. Two other volunteers were Prince Ferdinand Andreas of Liechtenstein and Sweden's tennis champion, Karl Schroder. Aland Island Novelist Sally Salminen (Katrina) returned to Helsinki from abroad and offered her services to the Finnish Government...