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Word: duchess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who fished the young woman out of Berlin waters found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand Duchess Tatiana, second daughter of Nicholas the Last. When the Baroness de Buxhaven, onetime Maid of Honor at the Court of Nicholas II, visited the young woman in Berlin and positively declared that she was not Tatiana, it was later announced that she is Anastasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Anastasia | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Married. Captain the Hon. Michael Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Duchess of York; to Miss Elizabeth Cator, one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of the Duchess; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Beneath the end of the slide wavelets rippled and laughed. Into them plunged, stern first, the Duchess of Bedford, with all the emphasis of her 20,000 tons. She is the second "Duchess" ship to be built for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., now famed for its "Empress'' ships. First of the new series was the Duchess of Atholl. Came to her recent launching Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl. Hers was the christening bottle. She tended and swung it with the gracious assurance of a stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four Duchesses | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Friends of Mary du Cauray, Duchess of Bedford, recalled that she is a busy expert in the realm of X-ray and electro-physics with little time for champagne christenings. "What are the peculiarities of mountain eagles in flight?" is a question which so intrigues the Duchess of Bedford that she passed a recent holiday above Spain, chasing mountain eagles by airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four Duchesses | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Officials of the Canadian Pacific told that later, this year, will be launched two more "Duchess" ships, namesakes of Mary, Duchess of Beaufort and the late Isobel, Duchess of Richmond, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four Duchesses | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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