Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London hatters charged luckless lords who had to buy cocked hats $60 each. Since popular temper was rising sharply against forcing the taxpayers of Surrey to spend $50,000 in order that a peer charged with felony may receive, at most, a wrist-slapping sentence, attorneys for unpopular Lord de Clifford announced that he "cannot" waive his mandatory right to be tried by the House of Lords. As strongly as possible they hinted that this handsome young man, an ardent British Fascist, would much rather be tried in democratic Old Bailey where a subject convicted of manslaughter is sometimes sentenced...
Mother of Lord de Clifford was the "Gibson Girl," Evelyn Chandler, a statuesque stage beauty some six feet tall. His wife is the daughter of London's frequently arrested night club queen, Mrs. Kate Meyrick. Lord de Clifford's chief previous legal difficulty was for "giving false information" in order to obtain his marriage license. This peccadillo carried a possible penalty of seven years in jail. London's Lord Mayor took a romantic view of the case in his capacity of magistrate, not only let Lord de Clifford off with a fine of $250 but gave...
...Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously as do the chiefs of the leagues...
...pits with 250 kibitzers mounted in circles behind them, the Frenchmen were told that they would begin play this week for THE CONTRACT BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. In an adjoining room, 800 more spectators will observe the play on an electric board. "What is this," asked Baron Robert de Nexon, team captain, "a circus?" The French nobleman who manages Pierre Wertheimer's famed racing stud is not unsophisticated. But he had seen nothing yet. The show that Mike Jacobs cooked up for the tenth and last night of the tournament will be held before 15,000 people...
...finance man at Motors is Donaldson Brown, who went to work for E. I. du Pont de Nemours in 1908, married Greta du Pont Barksdale in 1916, became du Pont treasurer in 1918. In 1921, with the du Ponts active in General Motors affairs, he moved over to the G. M. treasury as vice president in charge of finance. One of Mr. Brown's ancestors arrived in America with Captain John Smith. Last year General Motors paid Mr. Brown...