Word: pinon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular explanation of Leopold's hasty night ride was that Wilhelmina had become perturbed when she read an article by the French political writer René Pinon in Paris' Revue des deux mondes which suggested that Germany, about to pounce on the Dutch, had offered Belgium a piece of The Netherlands in return for Belgian neutrality; that His Majesty rushed to Her Majesty to deny the story personally, and then the royal telegram was drawn up to serve as an excuse for the sudden visit...
...gardens were reported "in an unfortunate condition." In September, 1929, "the avenues of royal pinon and taberind were dashed to the ground," and on this date in 1935, according to the CRIMSON, "many of the buildings were razed, and the greater part of the garden stock was severely injured. The storm stripped the citrus trees of their fruit and about 300 specimens were badly damaged...