Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ghost Stories. At a soiree held to swap stories, the Duchess of Hamilton, who specializes in healing, told of flooding one patient so strongly with her curative power that his watch stopped as though electrically shocked. Some one else told of having summoned Edward VII of England, who exclaimed upon arrival: "There are no kings here. Call me Teddy!" A Scotch doctor had spoken from "beyond" with a rich burr. A baritone spirit had sung Love's Old Sweet Song quite loudly...
...life of a Greek fever in the embattled swamps of Missolonghi. The present bio-novel might be regarded as a belated contribution to the centenary, atoning for its tardiness by its fervor. But such is hardly the case. The author of The Chaste Diana (Lavinia Fenton, later the Duchess of Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current taste in refined wantonness, when History's closet...
...Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these invitations was somehow or other construed to mean that the Duke would visit Yorktown, Va., next year, but this was officially denied in London, although both the Duke and Duchess hoped they would at some future date be able...
...Queen of the Belgians, the Queen of Rumania, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Infanta Beatrice of Spain, the Archbishop of Canterbury, J. H. Thomas (onetime engine driver and Colonial Secretary in the Labor Cabinet), the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Garvin (he is Editor of The Observer, London Sunday newspaper), the Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Winston Churchill, Prince and Princess Obolensky, the Colonial Secretary and Mrs. Amery, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Sir Edward and Lady Grigg, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty...
...will of the eighth Duke of Rutland, who left an estate valued at about $4,500,000, the Dowager Duchess, ''best and dearest woman ever born," received the Arlington Street house (which she has been forced to sell to meet the heavy death duties amounting to about $1,300,000), an automobile, a horse, carriage and about $100,000. Each of his daughters, including Lady Diana Duff Cooper, famed beauty, received about $100,000. The Duke was unable to leave anything to charity "as the heavy taxation and intolerable supertax render impossible any such action." He hoped that...