Word: devoutness
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...Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting at chimney-pots. He fell violently in love with Mrs. Fitzherbert, twice widowed at the age of 25. A gentle, reserved woman and a devout Catholic, she did not approve of his wild behavior. In 1785, to prove his sincerity, he married her secretly, thus establishing a royal mystery which was not solved until the discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when anti-Catholic...
Exceedingly devout, Dr. Schuschnigg, although hospitalized, insisted on arising three times to pray at his wife's coffin. Meanwhile, since Austria has hung on the brink of revolution ever since the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6), hoary President Wilhelm Miklas in consternation summoned the Cabinet, while Vienna buzzed with rumors that Nazi agents had tampered with the steering gear of the Schuschnigg automobile...
...nationwide broadcast of Adolf Hitler's speech to the German Reichstag, they gave a champagne initiation banquet. Secondly, while the Realmleader was still uttering his two-hour discourse, they left their Korps house, proceeded with levity through the streets of Heidelberg and noisily entered a restaurant full of devout listeners to the broadcast, one Saxo-Borussian pretending to use a champagne bottle as a trumpet. Thirdly, the Saxo-Borussians, amid much loud discussion, made a distinction between the correct way of eating asparagus and Adolf Hitler's way of eating asparagus...
...Count Coreth had meant by "the Austrian people" the proletariat rather than the devout peasantry no assertion could have been more monstrous. In 1919 as an act of Marxist right and mass justice the Imperial and Royal House of Habsburg?they of the curling ''Habsburg lip" ?were stripped of their lands and property down to the very nightgown of fugitive Empress Zita. Spurned by a Socialist Austrian Government, which exercised mercy only in saving the Habsburgs from being butchered as the Romanovs were butchered, Little Otto's uninspiring father, Kaiser Karl, was allowed to slip away...
...James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...