Word: skrzynski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sum was announced as the staggering marriage dot of the daughter of Henry Ford. She, tender, susceptible, had yielded to the suit of Count Alexander Skrzynski (6 ft. 3 in.), onetime Premier of Poland (TIME, May 3) who visited here last year (TIME, July 27). Miss Ford would bring to Poland enough gold to send the zloty zooming...
Warsaw editors, resourceful, instantly covered their booming blunder. It was not the daughter of Henry Ford, they said, but his granddaughter, Josephine, who was engaged to marry Count Skrzynski. Warsavians, remembering the flight of the Josephine Ford over the Pole (TIME, May 17), accepted this new rumor, beamed anew...
...several days were two facts placed in juxtaposition: Josephine is 3; Alexander Skrzynski...
Count Alexander Skrzynski, onetime Foreign Minister and later Premier of Poland, nodded bleakly. He was much slenderer than his opponent; he wore a silk soft shirt, open at the neck...
...sweep of his arm General Szeptycki raised and discharged his pistol. He had missed. No change appeared in the handsome, slightly mocking visage of the Count, but the gentlemen who watched him bring his lean weapon slowly into position knew that they were about to witness a tragedy. Count Skrzynski did not know how to miss; he was one of the deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense...