Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the witnesses called by Garvey were "Sir" James O'Mealley, a master of Calaba College, Jamaica (sent by Garvey as a delegate to the League of Nations), the Rev. Frederick Augustus Toote (a director of the Black Star Line), "Lady " Bruce, "Duchess of Uganda" (titles conferred upon her husband by Garvey), James Hercules (a boatswain of one of the Black Star Liners) and Amy Jacques Garvey (the defendant's second wife...
...Duchesse d'Uzes, handsome, white-haired, expert huntswoman, ardent Royalist, is the first woman to hold the position of Lieutenant des Loups (Lieutenant of Wolves). Told by M. Chéron, Minister of Agriculture, that if she 'accepted the honor she would have to swear allegiance to the Trench Republic, the Duchess extended her hand...
...gallant Lieutenant, the Duchess will wear huntsman's green and carry a bugle. She is also authorized to hunt wolves all over France and can organize boar and other hunts in the State forests...
...Duchess says that since the war the wolves have come back into the forests on her great Ardennes estates...
...Valmont, in Pride, by Thompson Buchanan, is of the latter or " Zem were ze grand old days " variety. His past was bright mauve -his manners impeccable-as Kipling puts it, " He was wild and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate." Moreover, he and the Duchess, ex-Susie Potter of Chicago, had been separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago. She loved him-but he was a roué-oh such a roué!-so she took her millions and their daughter (his little daughtaire 'e 'ad not seen 'ardly...