Word: ducale
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...successful was Selfridge & Co., Ltd. that its owner was able to buy ducal mansions, hobnob with London sophisticates. So wild was "King" Selfridge's personal spending that he had to found a holding company-The Gordon Selfridge Trust, Ltd.-with his Selfridge & Co. common as assets to raise ?1,100,000 of quick money. By 1933 he was some $1,000,000 in debt again. Then Selfridge & Co. headed for trouble...
...Over hoary Alnwick Castle on the once embattled Scottish border, a blue and gold ducal standard flew at half-mast announcing that Henry George Alan Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been killed in action. Head of the famous fighting Percy clan, which has battled in & out of England for over 800 years, the 27-year-old Duke died trying to stem the Nazi advance through Flanders. His brother and successor, Lord Hugh Algernon, is in active service with the Northumberland Hussars...
...from a triangle between Remich, Modorf and Schengen in her southeast corner. She shut down her big radio station, lest she be blamed for propaganda broadcast by others on its wave length, and banned the playing of radios and phonographs in public. On All Saints' Day, the Grand Ducal Army (1,000 men, plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted...
Once Is Enough (by Frederick Lonsdale; produced by Gilbert Miller). Ten minutes after the curtain rose last week on Once Is Enough, nobody in the audience could have sworn that it was not 1928. For a Frederick Lonsdale comedy, full of fishwife manners but ducal breeding, was unhurriedly finding its stride. Not since 1930 (Canaries Sometimes Sing) had a Lonsdale play softly crackled on Broadway, but most of the audience could probably remember Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning...
...Duke had escaped by special train from Shantung Province when the Japanese marched in fortnight ago, blasting the ducal seat near the Sacred Mount Taishan, where some 10,000 descendants of the Sage are buried. In 1936 the Confucian Society of Japan got the boy Duke to come to Tokyo and dedicate a shrine to the Sage. Ever since there have been rumors that Japan was persuading the Duke to let her set him up as puppet ruler of China...