Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this time when we hear nothing from Russia except news of revolutions, Bolsheviki and dictators, the latest report that the Grand Duchess Taliana has escaped to America is most cheering...
This young lady is the most beautiful and popular of the ex-Czar's daughters, and has been haunted by camera-men and suitors with equal vigor. Many a noble in Europe has pined away because the Grand Duchess did not care for him, but all those romances are things of the past, for this charming young woman has decided that the present Russia is no place for a debutante;--she has determined to cast her lot among us. Fortunately the Grand Duchess has left her family, which has always been a handicap to her, behind...
...Phillips Brooks House and show her the glass flowers, or if she cares for informality we can always take her to a soccer game and then give a dinner in her honor at the Union. We suggest that the Student Council think over the matter of inviting the Grand Duchess to Harvard. She can always take a special course in Slavic and it would be an attraction to have enrolled in U4 the illustrious name of Tatiana Romanoff...
There are nearly 800 separate pieces. Four relate to Nell Gwynne and the Duchess of Portsmouth. A large and valuable collection concerns the Duke of Monmouth and the rising in the west of England and an even more wonderful series concerns the Rump Parliament, among which are many of a satirical character. Another extraordinary series printed in 1659 deals with the affairs leading to the restoration of the Monarchy, also various ordinances issued by the Royalist and by Commonwealth Parliaments, and a large number concerning the doings of Charles I during the most eventful period of his history. Accounts...
...labors of other men. It has the true originality of the scholar who has so thoroughly assimilated all that has been done before him as to make it in the best sense a part of himself. The chapters deal with The Man and his Times; The Book of the Duchess; The House of Fame; Troilus; and The Canterbury Tales...