Word: archduchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
...Married. Archduchess Agnes Christine of Habsburg, 20, great-granddaughter of Austria's late Emperor Franz Josef; and Prince Karl Alfred, 38, brother of Franz Josef II, reigning prince of Liechtenstein; in Castle Persenbeug, Austria...
Bravo! (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone...
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels...
...Supremely unimportant" probabilities: born Harry F. Gerguson in 1890 in 1) Vilna, Russia, or 2) Hillsboro, Ill., or 3) Manhattan's lower East Side. † Other New World Habsburgs: Archduke Otto and youngest brother, Archduke Rodolphe in Washington; Mother Empress Zita and Archduchess Elizabeth Charlotte in Quebec; Archduchesses Adelaide and Charlotte in New York City...