Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parting. "Baby Betty," when an hour old, yawned at the Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, who was present to attest her birth. Though an infant, she has gained the reputation of being distinctly self-possessed. Therefore when her petite and tearful mother, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, bent over Princess Elizabeth to say goodbye, last week, the royal infant was concentrating upon an effort to suck her left great toe. . . . "God bless my baby," said Elizabeth of York softly...
FarewelL At Victoria Station the King-Emperor and his Consort, who never leave London to welcome or say farewell to anyone, bade Godspeed to the Duke and Duchess as they entrained for Portsmouth. With grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half-embraced his son with a fatherly pat upon the back and stepped out of the com- partment again onto the platform. Edward of Wales, always in high spirits when chatting with his merry sister-in-law, rode down to Portsmouth, as did Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal...
Unprecedented. Aboard the Renown the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting* experienced the qualm of being not merely the only three women on a very big ship, but absolutely the only women who have ever been transported - except in emergencies - aboard a British ship of war. No maids are at their disposal. Their hair will be dressed by a marine especially educated for this duty by London coiffeurs (TIME, Dec. 27). They must subject their washables to the deadly friction of sailor scrubbing boards...
...Wilhelm of Ponte Corvo, second son of King Gustaf of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland, divorced husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. To boot, this personage is a lion hunter, a poet, a successful dramatist and a descendant of Jean Bernadotte, Napoleon's great marshal...
Ambrose McEvoy's reputation was almost as high in the U. S. as in England. In 1920, his exhibition at Sir Joseph Duveen's Manhattan galleries led to many commissions here, at $5,000 each, for his idealized representations of fashionable ladies. (He had painted Consuelo, onetime Duchess of Marlborough.) He was compared with Gainsborough. His "Portrait of my Mother" looks less like Gains- borough's lacy work, however, than Whistler's calm familiar model by the same name. Only, Madam McEvoy seems not so old as Madam Whistler. In fact one feels she would take...