Word: rudolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...from the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), was taken by Detroit's Daily Mirror (gumchewers' sheet-let owned by the Tribune's publishers). It showed a round-shouldered, straw-hatted young man with a cigaret hanging from his mouth smirking at Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Gold, interviewing them about their young daughter Vivian and their nephew Harry Lore who had just been murdered and burned with another young couple by three fiends (one a big Negro) in Ypsilanti, Mich. (TIME...
...Rudolf to avenge their honor. (One version of this story has Archduke Rudolf not shot, but smashed over the head with a champagne bottle. Legend describes the arrival of a surgeon who extracted three-inch slivers of green glass from his skull...
Last week newsgatherers broke down the reticence of one of the few living people who really know what happened to Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg-a gentle 76-year-old lady, Frau Katharina Schratt...
...vain I sought to calm her. Tears choked her voice. She could not speak. Finally she regained control of herself, staring at me through tear-filled eyes. 'Rudolf is dead! You alone must break the news to the Emperor...