Word: connaught
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...Princess Obolensky, the Colonial Secretary and Mrs. Amery, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Sir Edward and Lady Grigg, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty with Lady Beatty, Sir James Barrie, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat," daughter of the Duke of Connaught) and, popular bachelor that he is, the 77-year-old Lord Balfour...
...afternoon, capped and gowned, he opened the University of Witwatersrand, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1922 by his cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the then Governor General. Students yelled their lungs raw and the Vice Chancellor, Sir Robert Kotze, invested him with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
From 1711 to the Year of Grace, the Ascot races have marked the end of 214 social seasons. Last week, the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Henry, Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles; Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet...
...company of 850. Most of them were delegates to the Interstate Post-Graduate Medical Assembly, which opened in Wigmore Hall, London, last week, when the Duke of York gripped the hand of Dr. Charles H. Mayo, President. Addresses were delivered by Neville Chamberlain, Ambassador Houghton, the Duke of Connaught. Lord Dawson, physician to King George, defined life as "one long innoculation." Others discussed this, that. This party was preceded by one in the garden of the London Hospital, where they danced, ate, drank, talked, smoked. This week they will continue their deliberations...
York was in East Africa and the Duke of Connaught (King's uncle) on the French Riviera...