Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...
With matronly determination Queen Wilhelmina grasped a handle attached to a long wire, gave a resolute tug. At the other end of the wire the gate mechanism tripped. Slowly open swung two doors of steel taller than the biggest Dutch wind mill. Tooo! Tooo! Tooo! screamed the whistle of a new Dutch liner, the Johan Van Barnevelt (18,000 tons) as she steamed into lock. Doors closed. Sluices opened. In twelve minutes the enormous volume of 3,000,000 cu. ft. of sea water poured into lock. Gates at the far end opened. Out to the North...
...hint that at 21 the heiress of the House of Orange-Nassau should have a husband. Dutch delicacy forbade that. But it was permissible, right, even a duty to hint that the Dutch East Indies have not yet received a visit from Her Royal Highness Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Duchess of Ficklebourg, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Crown Princess of the Netherlands...
...Wilhelmina Houdini has waited three and one-half years for word from her late husband Harry, magician and ghostbuster. Before he died he promised to communicate with her from the grave if possible. Many have been her attempts, all futile, to talk with him. Often she has been approached by mediums who claimed spiritual contact, but she knew they were all faking. She and Houdini prearranged a code, in which no medium has yet brought word from...
Chester Morris's parents were in vaudeville for years. His brother Gordon writes plays. His brother Adrian and his sister Wilhelmina do short turns and musical specialties. He tried to be an artist for a while, then worked in vaudeville as a Magician?"Mysterious Morris"?copying Thurston. Augustus Thomas, who was an old friend of his father, got him a part in The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore. After that he worked in various stock and Broadway plays. For some reason he has been more successful in pictures than anywhere else. Some of his films: Alibi, Woman Trap, Fast Life...