Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet. The Premier and Miss Ishbel Macdonald attended a dinner given by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe at their home on Carlton House Terrace. King George was present...
...House by 288 votes to 72. If the bill is finally passed, it will mean an addition of 4,500,000 women, making a total of 12,400,000 women against 10,500,000 men. All the women M. P.'s supported the bill except the Duchess of Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson. The Duchess said that since a conference had set the age limit, a conference should revise it. She also commented adversely upon giving the vote to "young tinkers and hawkers" who had no opportunity to know anything about politics. This drew from Rhys Davies, Under Secretary...
...Duchess of Vendome, nee Princess Henrietta of Belgium, sister of King Albert, addressed to the people of France a public letter inviting them to associate themselves with the people of Belgium in celebrating the golden jubilee of Desire Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines...
Among those immortalized by Sargent are: Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Duchess of Warwick, Theodore Roosevelt, John Davison Rockefeller, Joseph Jefferson, Joseph Pulitzer, John Hay. Just finished is a portrait of A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard President...
Died. Ex-Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, 29, Carmelite nun since 1920 when she abdicated in favor of her sister Charlotte, now reigning Duchess of Luxembourg; at Hohenburg castle, Bavaria. When the Germans demanded passage through Luxembourg on their way to attack France, she formally protested by drawing her automobile across the street in front of the advancing army. Neither she nor the Luxembourg Government (Germany's forced auxiliary) opposed forcibly, however...