Word: woman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, boundlessly in love at the age of 61, wrote a rich woman in her diary two years ago. Death came to her in shame and poverty last week. She died of pneumonia without receiving a word or line of sympathy from her first cousin George V, King and Emperor. Her brother, Wilhelm II, telephoned to ask if she would like to see him at the last. "Nein, nein," whispered Victoria of Hohenzollern, "I don't want to see anybody but my nurses...
Almost as Death came a limousine swirled up to the hospital door. Out stepped the dying woman's younger sister, Margaret of Hohenzollern, wife of the Landgrave of Hesse, who accompanied her. They hurried up the stairs?too late...
...island of Bali is a day's journey east of Java. Danseuse Page is the first white woman to study and reproduce the dances there...
...Milan, Italy, a woman tried to pay a shopkeeper with coins of suspiciously leaden color. He turned her over to the police. While she wailed, protested she was not a counterfeiter, they examined her handbag, found that a small thermometer had broken, releasing mercury which had formed amalgam on the coins...
...Convention of National Woman's Party in Washington...