Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. Approximating novels in manner and matter two of the longest represent the author at his best. The first, "The Cat That Lived at the Ritz," is a shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed by her fake-duchess friend and guarded by her lifelong enemy, "the cat that lived at the Ritz." The final tale, "The Apothecary," is a grim parable of the vulgar and aging rich who gather around them impoverished Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary...
...William Hunter Workman Fellowship for graduate study and research either in this country or abroad has been awarded to John T. Edsall '23. Tutor in Bio-Chemical Sciences. The Woodbury Lowery fellowship for research in historical archives in Spain which was founded by the Duke and Duchess of Areos, in memory of Woodbury Lowery, brother of the Duchess, has been given to Carleton S. Smith...
...incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only two removes from becoming "Queen Elizabeth"-which title is constantly and teasingly applied to her by Edward of Wales. She would be less than human if she did not sometimes wonder how much truth there is in the story that he once said he would renounce his rights upon...
...Fisher had bought a painting, with extraordinary results. It was a portrait of the Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, supposedly executed by George Romney in 1782 when the chaste, ringleted subject was only 17. Brother Lawrence paid the Howard Young Galleries of Manhattan about $200,000 for the canvas...
...party of 30 Britons and U.S. citizens came to South Africa last week on the new and luxurious Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl. They saw Cape Town, traveled inland to the diamond mines, and leaving the railroad, embarked in motor busses for the Kruger National Park game preserve to see the wild animals...