Word: wilhelmina
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...exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...
...ancient family in the Dutch nobility; their home was once the Castle of Doom, in which the defeated German Kaiser spent his declining years. Audrey's grandfather, Baron Aernoud van Heemstra, onetime governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, was a familiar figure at the court of Queen Wilhelmina...
Alan B. Ives, Wilhelmina L. Florencourt, William E. Glynn, and Austin Boble '50 were elected to the class Executive Council. The Executive Council will meet this evening to elect three more members to its ranks...
...children's clothes and set out on a tour of the flooded areas. At one point her car got stuck in the mud. "Come on," called the Queen, suiting the action to the word, "let's get out and push." Even 72-year-old Princess Wilhelmina took to the road for two days to lend what help she could...
Died. Dr. Alexander Loudon, 60, Dutch career diplomat, ambassador to the U. S. from Queen Wilhelmina's wartime exile government, since 1951 secretary general of the dormant Permanent Court of Arbitration; of a heart attack; in The Hague...