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...Babes in the African Wood, Rosamund and Plush. He was Under-Secretary for Air (1921-22), and President of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (1920-22). While thus employed he composed Love Triumphant, and other poems. Seven years ago he married, and two years ago, at 43, begot his only son and heir, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes-a lusty infant said to prefer a dash of sugar in his milk...
Returning to Madrid with his bride, King Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son. Three months passed. The elder daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 5, was then a Queen-Babe under her mother's regency. Suddenly the royal physicians proclaimed, amid prodigious Spanish rejoicings, that the Queen Mother was certainly with child. Thereafter excitement was intense and betting unrestrained. Would it be a mere girl, or was there actually stirring in the royal widow a KING...
Some three centuries after Macbeth's death, King Robert II of Scotland begot a daughter from Elizabeth Mure (first mistress, later queen), married the girl to doughty John Lyon, gave him Glamis Castle. Thence the House of Bowes-Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
Sympathetic friends of Princess Mary deem that she is indeed "suffering a great deal," for, until the Duke of York married and begot "Baby Betty" (TIME, May 3, 1926), Princess Mary was the feminine best bet of British camera men and they always clicked her at her best...
...nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned a new culture, based on the old ideas moulded afresh, by contact with forest...