Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms of his will, his widow is left an interest in the London residence, a jointure worth about $5,000 annually and the residue of his personal property. The children by his first wife (Mary, Cynthia, Alexandra) having benefited "by the wills of their grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Leiter," were left "laces, fans, dresses, furs and personal belongings of their mother with the exception of the peacock dress* which she wore at the Delhi Durbar...
...light tap at the door and a messenger entered. He brought a note written in pencil which read: 'Please make me a sketch of our beloved Queen as she lies there on her bed surrounded by the flowers she loved.' 'A.' It was from Alexandra . . . It was at Stanmore that I first met Prince Francis of Teck, the brother of Queen Mary, probably the handsomest man I have ever seen...
Engaged. Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon, 21, youngest daughter of the late Lord Curzon, onetime (1899-1905) Viceroy of India, and his first wife, Mary Leiter of Washington, D. C., to Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, equerry of Edward of Wales. Major Metcalfe first met Wales when the latter was touring India in 1922. Edward, impressed with Metcalfe's knowledge of horses, insisted on his becoming a member of his personal staff...
This book contains four long poems, Dionysus in Doubt, Genevieve and Alexandra, Mortmain, Demos and Dionysus, elaborate philosophic acros tics, graphs of spiritual collisions; many sonnets, some like a goldsmith's gargoyles, precise in horror, some mere laconic footnotes to metaphysical debate, some that are compressed short stories...
Married. Miss Alexandra W. Stirling, sometime (1916, 1919, 1920) National Women's Golf Champion, to Dr. Wilbert G. Fraser of Canada; in Atlanta...