Word: ducal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. The Bishop, in short, was keenly interested in Society; he knew Society; he would be able to clarify the special sig nificance of this ducal affair. Before a congregation of 1,000 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bishop delivered himself. "This action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others who are interested...
...Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
...women whose homes are represented as being any place in these United States, but whose speech is redolent of Buckingham Palace. Until the recent advent of the new naturalism of the theatre (low voice, mumbled words, incoherent murmurs), farm girls were quite likely to burst forth in ducal accents. Any person recognizing an r as something more than an opportunity for a drawl was looked upon as distinctly provincial. Thanks to the school of which the Messrs. O'Neil and Stallings are the chief exponents, theatrical language has lately come to have more or less close connections with the supposed...
...such a study the best material is found in the accounts of institutions and the households of the nobles. The Archives of the great monastic houses, of the five great military orders, and of many ducal houses are known to be substantially complete. The exact nature of these resources is not well known. We know much about the archives of the Indies at Seville and about the archives of the Marta at Madrid. But without further examination, it would not be possible to plan the details of the price series to be embodied in the general index number...
While the crowds waited, pushed for better positions, hissed at one another gutturally, as is the moda of the displeased Roman, in the Ducal Hall of the Vatican Pius XI donned his ceremonial vestments; prepared to set out accompanied by his religious and secular court, by Princes Orsini, Boncompagni, Massimo, Aldobrandini. On the way to St. Peter's there joined this group the Noble Guard, the Knights of the Cape and Sword, all the Cardinals in Rome, Patriarchs from the East, white-mitred abbots, purple-clad canons of St. Peter's, Swiss Guards, Palatine Guards, members of religious orders...