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...Carl, an unimportant, very distant cousin, died in penury in Vienna a few days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: 100% King | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...BOTTOM ? Maxim Gorki's pauper philosophers revived (The Lower Depths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...cold wave struck in December 1920 he died of influenza with the words "Cara, cara, Italia!'' (Dear, dear Italy) on his lips. A few days later his mistress threw herself from a window. Friends of the painter wired his brother in Italy that he had died a pauper. The reply was: "Bury him as prince." Modigliani was carried to his grave by the celebrities of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...money campaign was initiated, another was begun in Manhattan-for $6,000,000 to build a Gotham Hospital. It's fees will be moderate-an attempt to solve the great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospitals for Women Doctors | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies up. . . ." The horror of his unconfessed murder haunted him, but he dared not confess to priest or pauper, lest further disgrace crush delicate Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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