Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor to bid was the third Bourbon sister, 61-year-old Marie Alice Ildephonse Marguerite. Princess Del Prete, whom Don Jaime cut off with 12,000 francs a year. For ?15,000 the necklace passed into the hands of jewel-fancying Sir Kamesh-war Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga, whose bodyguard of eight tall, turbaned, immaculate Indians has been one of London's sights since the Coronation...
Engaged. Alexandrine du Pont, daughter of Powdermaker Lammot du Pont; to Howard Alfred Perkins; in Wilmington, Del...
...months after the Philadelphia wrestling match episode, Franklin was a guest at Ethel's debut at Owls Nest, the Du Ponts' Greenville, Del. home. He subsequently visited her there and at a summer place at North Harbor, Me. When they appeared together at other debuts in Boston and Philadelphia the same year, society columnists began to predict a match. "Absolutely untrue," snapped Father du Pont. Nevertheless, Franklin bought a roadster in Wilmington and gave his address as Owls Nest Road...
...tiny Christ Church at Christiana Hundred, Del. next week, retired Powder-maker Eugene du Pont will give in marriage his eldest daughter Ethel to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., third son and namesake of the U. S. President. To hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens for whom the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's nuptials were more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere...
...large scale we saw every day. . . . The totalitarian fascist states believe in the totalitarian war. That put simply means that whenever they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field...