Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once the Other Grandmama's eldest brother was called King, Kaiser and All Highest War Lord. She has been wife to one king and mother to two; but now, when she rides out in Florence, no one cries, "Look! There goes the Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece. The Kaiser's sister...
...remembers her husband, the late King Constantine of Greece, he who guessed wrong in siding with his brother-in-law, Wilhelm II, during the War. No one would remember her second and favorite son, King Alexander of Greece, had he not died sensationally of a monkey bite. Today her eldest son, the deposed King George II of Greece, is a charming though impecunious guest at the Rumanian and British Courts, being especially favored by his royal & imperial second cousin once removed, George...
Prince George, fourth son of Britain's George V, was assigned to the war boat Durban, last week, as "an interpreter in French." George V, the second son of Edward VII, was merely commander of H. M. S. Melampus when the death of his elder brother, now known as the Duke of Clarence, made him Prince of Wales, later King-Emperor...
Louis Henri Joseph Lucon, Cardinal-Archbishop of Rheims, 86, flew above and about his cathedral. Said he: "I should not have risked it before the War. People would have gossiped. . . . How beautiful, serene...
...Kansas University he played the leads for the dramatic society, published the football programs, was head of the Y. M. C. A. and did all the many other things that make for importance at college. When the U. S. entered the War he was commissioned from Washington as a lieutenant of aviation and attached to the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. After the Armistice, mustered out as a captain of aviation he went to Racine as sales promotion manager of the J. I. Case Plow Works Co. When, five years later, he left Racine to take his present position...