Word: connaught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most scathing of all the royal pepperiness was his censure of his brother, the Duke of Connaught, now 77, uncle of King George. The royal ire was aroused by the Duke's refusal to retain for a third year his appointment as commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean, with headquarters at Malta. Said King Edward: "The Duke of Connaught must now consider his military career at an end, and if he does not intend returning to Malta he should resign his appointment at once. The King is much annoyed at his brother's persistent obstinancy...
Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, is the third son of Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...
...Duke of Connaught has never been a popular figure, even in the Commonwealth. He is much too reserved for that. He has not been popular in the Army. His acid wit prevented that. The measure of publicity, which the remainder of the royal family have never been able to eschew, although they hate it as cordially as does the Duke, he has been able to avoid...
Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board of directors...
...melodramas currently padding his Broadway income, The Noose and Lily Sue. Compared with them, this third, from Donn Byrne's novel, is a theatrically diseased mess. The story follows the lives of a young country gentleman, Dermot McDermot (Walter Abel) and a neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race...