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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Princess Genevieve d'Orleans, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Vendome, to Comte de Chaponey, a great grandson of Adolphe Schneider, founder of the famous Le Creusot Iron works (the French "Krupps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...Kathleen Norris of today is a strikingly handsome woman who looks like a duchess and, fortunately, isn't one. "The greatest fun in life," she told me, "is being forty." One of the most highly paid and the most popular of American women writers, she has pleased the critics as well as the public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crumbs* | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

Born.-To the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick (daughter of the ex-Kaiser), at Gmunden, Austria, a son. They have now four children, three of whom are sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 24, 1923 | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...Wade and Boylston Prize speaking contest, which will take place this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre: R. A. Zinn '24, "Boots", Rudyard Kipling N. C. Fassett '22, "The Congo" Vachel Lindsay B. A. Trustman '22, "Repiy to Hayne", Daniel Webster Oviatt McConnell '24, "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning C. W. Phelps '22, "The Power of Motive", Frederick Aobisoha (Intermission of five minutes) M. P. Lichauco '23, "The Voice of the Philipino People", Manuel Quezon A. W. Lewin '24, "On the Wire", Robert Service J. C. Shoe '23, "Recognition of Soviet Russia", David Lloyd George H. C. Martin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKING CONTEST TO BE HELD TONIGHT IN SANDERS THEATRE | 5/11/1922 | See Source »

Divisionals are Lowelling along the Homer Wace. Lamarck boards the Hollow Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVISIONAL TREMENS | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

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