Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired Princess Hermine, 59, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, did some reminiscing. "The Kaiser," she recalled, "was a wonderful man . . . very sad about the [second] war, and detested and distrusted Hitler." She herself was living in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Russian zone. She had "lost everything" except two tables and a chair, but she is still addressed by close friends as "Your Majesty...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...
...nearby highways, talking and practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring, deadly book"). When they can find the time, most of the cultists paint, whether they...
...gambling game with England's Edward VII, lost, and paid. Now in her 70s, still tall and stately, Caroline lives quietly in a small house on an allowance from an old admirer. "I spent the weekend regularly with Edward VII," she reminisced happily last week. "The Kaiser Wilhelm was so much in love with me he was crazy...
Social Sciences: Mary Lou Bensley 2G, Elizabeth P. Clark 1G, Robert G. Layer 2G, Bruno J. Palmer-Poroner 1G, Janet Reinertson 2G, Andrew E. Rice 1G, O. Glenn Saxon 1G, J. Schachter 1G, Winton U. Solberg 1G, Richard N. Swift 1G, Jackson Toby 1G, Warren Wilhelm...