Word: genuflect
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...grim, black-pompadored woman was dressed in black. Over her head was a borrowed crown that Napoleon I had used when in Rome. First to genuflect came Duke Maximilian of Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off a war in July 1914. The chances that they were paying homage to a future Dowager Empress were better last week than they had been in a long time...