Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duchess of Flights. Intimates of Mary du Cauroy, 63, Duchess of Bedford, received her telegrams one morning last week: "Off for India. Expect to be back in a week." By the time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist...
Gravrilo Princip and Nadelko Cabrinovite were the students who killed the Archduke & his Duchess. Their bodies, with those of 26 of their fellow conspirators, lie in a great stone vault, unmarked out of regard for Austrian feeling. Here solemn hero services were held last week...
...Ascot last week, eyed by Edward of Wales, the Duke & Duchess of York and several thousand other spectators in flowered dresses and grey toppers, Reigh Count, winner of last year's Kentucky Derby, and of this year's Coronation stakes in England, ran eagerly and fast but only came in second in England's great and fashionable Ascot Derby. The winner by two lengths was Invershin, a powerful seven-year-old owned by British Sportsman Reid Walker. Owner Walker, not as surprised as he might have 'been, because Invershin won the same race last year, purred...
Died. Howard de Talleyrand, Prince de Sagan, 19, of Paris, son of Duchess de Talleyrand (Anna Gould); in Paris; of pleural complications after shooting himself because his parents refused to let him marry until he became of age (TIME, June...
Such has been the history of many a U. S. scandal. But such was not the case last month when 19-year-old Howard, Prince of Sagan, son of the Duchess de Talleyrand, who was Anna, the daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke...