Word: vii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majestic Castle. Reid and Barry, along with a friend, got out of Oflag VII C all right, completely outsmarting their German keepers by using the classic tunnel scheme. Theirs was one of the first World War II escapes on record, and almost everything about it worked fine. They had got halfway to Yugoslavia when they were surrounded by a patrol. The next day they were back in Oflag VII C again...
...point for the effigies came during World War II, when the basement undercroft where they lay was flooded during an air raid. Until 1949 they rotted quietly in this man-made bog. When the undercroft was finally drained, the effigies were a jumble of decomposing rubbish. Henry VII had lost his nose. A hole in Edward III's skull showed grey underplaster. The abbey custodians had half a mind to burn the whole mess...
...worst problem was Henry VII, whose nose was gone for good. Howgrave-Graham modeled a new one after a bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum and made Henry VII look like a king again. He patched the top of Edward Ill's head. He sat up all night with Catherine of Valois (queen of Henry V), massaging her for eleven hours with a cellulose solution. "I'm sure she'll be all right now," says Howgrave-Graham. "It would be terribly ungrateful of her if she weren...
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...hostess to Prince Henry of Prussia at the only private social function he attended in the U.S. In the years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the chief rival claimant to leadership of U.S. (i.e., New York and Newport) society. The importance of the position she had won was fully apparent to Grace Vanderbilt. Said she on one occasion: "I feel deeply...