Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign set up in the middle of the busiest street in Nelson, New Zealand, last week, while Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York, was sick abed in her hotel recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Meanwhile a pageant of 50,000 loyal New Zealanders passed in gala review before the Duke of York, second son of the King-Emperor, now en route to Australia (TIME...
...city. (Capital of Australia. Thither travels the Duke of York with his Duchess...
Amid a mild epidemic of measles and much general hilarity, the Duke and Duchess of York landed at Suva, Fiji Islands, last week from the cruiser Renown, on their way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.). The natives, their faces painted, their bodies caparisoned in grassy garments, received the King-Emperor's son with a tama, a prolonged, mournful and most honorable sound, a sound that begins as a grant, crescendoes to a bark, and ends with an exclamation resembling "WHOA...
Soon the Chief was hopping and strutting gleefully with a silver-headed cane from Bond Street, presented by the Duke and Duchess. Grateful, he prepared for them a bowl of the sacred nectar kava, "by drinking which the Chief is brought near and like unto his people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although...
...Daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who left her at Buckingham Palace when they set sail for Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) there to open the new Federal Capital, Canberra...