Word: romanovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reports of the lovers. "Philip," announced one paper solemnly, "turned up Friday with a ring on the little finger. He usually wears it on his second finger." Even the Daily Worker seemed affected by the monarchical atmosphere. "This alliance," it proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers on whether the Princess should . be married in rationed austerity or regal state ("Life is too drab," it warned, "to pass up this chance for having fun"), the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler...
Sparking the drive is the Government's Ail-Union Committee for Physical Culture. It is headed by Nikolai Romanov (no kin of the late Czar), who bosses 600 stadiums, 14,000 playgrounds, 6,000 skiing stations, 45,000 volleyball courts. Romanov's job is emphatically part of the Soviet preparedness program...
...drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost favor when he married a commoner. He was killed in Belgium in World War II. Air-minded Hubertus joined Hitler's Luftwaffe, rose to a captaincy, was at last reports still flying. Debonair Friedrich, the youngest...
Once before, in 1918, America reaped the fruit of victory: the menace of German arrogant military power, controlling Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, was removed and democratic ideals triumphed in the fall of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanov empires, in the liberation of nationalities, in social and political gains everywhere...
...Heavy, surly-faced Grand Duke Vladimir, 23, who gets a large part of his exercise as pretender to the Romanov throne. A first cousin once removed of the late Tsar, he is the son of the late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer...