A TERRIBLE NAME.
The King of (Ireece has an aide-de-camp who ix'joioeu in «bl»e name of PappadiamantopouluH. In the ordinary course of things, the goLUvnt colonei would accompany his HolL-nic Majesty on his travels abroad every summer, but his name was found to leave a train of dislocated jaws in the Royal wake; moreover, it wan charged ns two words in telegrams, and was mutilated by telegraphists beyond all recognition; co he is now left at iiome, and a gentleman of the name of Tlion takes l\ia place in attendance on King George on his annual visits to Aix-lee-Baius' and Paris. Even Southey's Russian General— "a terrible man with a terrible name"— would have paled his ineffectual fires in the presence of Pappadiamantopouios 1
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 7
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124A TERRIBLE NAME. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 7
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