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Whatever is royal and at the same time smart and sumptuous, in the Netherlands, will usually be found to appertain to that great lady, the Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...
...lackeys to pick up objects which were not there, and, when they pretended to do so, caned them smartly. As a madman, King Ludwig demanded and obtained, among other whims: 1) lifesize clockwork peacocks made to open their wings composed of thousands of bits of colored glass; 2) a sumptuous barge drawn by mechanical swans in which he sailed about as Lohengrin; 3) an artificial grotto simulating that at Capri...
...Costa Rican public freely and without interference from my Government has already carried out a sumptuous manifestation of sympathy for Dr. Sacasa...
...Presidents of two republics bought sumptuous private trains last week, and, since their own countrymen could not make them, they turned to the railway shops of two other republics...
Signor Benito Mussolini resides in bachelor estate at the sumptuous Villa Torlonia, Rome, Donna Rachele Mussolini and their small sons, Bruno and Vittorio, spend the winter at an apartment in Milan, and the summer at a little villa near Forli in the Umbrian mountains. Edda Mussolini, their daughter, attends boarding school in Florence. Thus the Mussolinis dwell apart, except on holidays such as Christmas...