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...Empress Augusta Victoria Hospice (hotel). The British, easygoing, have left unmolested a pair of astonishing mural paintings in the Chapel. One depicts God the Father. The other, directly opposite and much more imposing in composition, was painted to display in trailing Biblical robes of glory The All Highest, Wilhelm...
...orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
...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...
...most German work. It may well be questioned whether it will ever be worthwhile to translate it-so much of art in language can hardly be transcribed into a foreign tongue. And yet it would be interesting to see how it would appeal to a foreign audience, this "Wilhelm Meister" among Thomas Mann's works, this most comprehensive part of his "great confession...
...answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...