Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marie-Adélaïde refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
...Foreign Minister Count Ciano of Italy (TIME, Dec. 25), which was cut to ribbons by Premier Edouard Daladier's press censorship but reached French radio listeners in broadcasts from Italy, Germany and even America in an assortment of languages which of course included French. Up jumped Rightist Deputy Xavier Vallat to agree for once with Leftist Blum, gave the Chamber other examples...