Word: prussia
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Figure of Fun. For a time Queen Victoria had a taste for Tupper's poetry. When the Princess Royal married Prince Frederick of Prussia, she commanded lyrics from Tupper, and ordered him to the palace to present the bride & groom with specially bound copies of Proverbial Philosophy. The bard got a private audience and passed the books direct from his own common paws into the royal hands. He was told it was an honor that had been done to only one other British writer-George III was once as gracious to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Americans were impressed with Tupper...
Died. Prince Hubertus of Prussia, 40, grandson of Germany's late Kaiser Wilhelm, wartime captain in Hitler's Luftwafte, recently a sheep farmer in South Africa; after an appendectomy; in Windhoek, South-West Africa...
Prince Hubertus of Prussia, grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, landed in South Africa to begin a new life as a sheep farmer. "This is going to be a considerable change from my vineyards at Wiesbach on the Rhine," he told newsmen in Johannesburg, "but your country has a wonderful future. Germany today is not a very happy place...
...little to stop the Russian Army; a more expensive, no less effective and certainly safer, plan would be to keep occupation forces in Germany as a picket line until the Cold War either freezes or boils over. There are echoes in the urgings of the Brotherhood--unpleasant echoes from Prussia, and the Marne, and the Ardennes...
...There is not one Germany. There are three. One (Bavaria) is the Germany of beer, a second (Prussia) is the Germany of schnapps and the third (the Rhineland) is the Germany of wine. The only people sober enough to rule all three in a sane, sensible manner are those from the wine country...