Word: ducal
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...ceremony took place in London, in the Berkeley Square home of Lady Seaforth, hospital benefactress. Because she asked them and because Mrs. Spahlinger was the Countess Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, member of an Italian ducal family which has become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge...
...Burke's Peerage puts it, "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand, next to the Blood Royal, at the head of the Peerage of England''?and are, of course, of prodigiously older English lineage...
...protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned by the death of her mother, Marie and her brother Dmitri were brought up by a grand ducal uncle and aunt. When she was 15 her uncle was killed by a revolutionist's bomb. Her aunt married her off to a Swedish prince when she was 18. Marie liked her husband less and less, got the marriage annulled, went back to Russia. Meantime she visited Italy...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
...since Cumberland has once been a royal, ducal title, a mere Viscount would probably not assume it. † Contrary to popular impression, the British Embassy never became "dry." Its cellars were amply stocked with liquor before the Howard ban became effective. Alcoholic drinks continued to be served by the Ambassador from this supply...