Word: conqueror
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...famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background, we don't even answer them") and two who claimed a royal bar sinister, the applicants for the TV job totaled 18, all of them impressively blue-blooded. Vicki was so overwhelmed that at one point she announced: "We may end up by taking...
...proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house one night only to find Argyll there before him. When Wellington knocked, Harriette dressed Argyll in her nightcap and dressing gown and sent him to the window to tell the conqueror to be off-as the hussy must have it-"to his neglected wife and family duties...
...Hernando Cortez. conqueror of Mexico, never visited Panama...
...into 10 Downing Street; his birthday fund passed $300,000 and was still rising. Debrett's editor rummaged through Churchill's female ancestry and announced happily that Churchill was of blood royal, through Henry VII, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Parliament itself bustled over preparations for the unprecedented ceremony this week in the great hall which King William Rufus began in 1097. There Churchill will be presented with an ornate memorial volume containing the signatures of all members of the House of Commons (except those of about ten sulky Socialists...
...that the French were leaving quietly, the Indians felt a little more kindly towards them, and even placed a wreath at the foot of a statue to France's great colonial conqueror, General Joseph François Dupleix...