Word: duchess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bearing the names of the hero's descendants also buried there and the dates of his victories. Last week news of the North Carolina venture made Pere-Lachaise keepers scoff anew at a chestnut which had been popping fitfully for years. At No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, the Duchess of Elchingen, relict of a Michel Ney who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's great ancestor was buried in the U. S. In Charlotte Davidson College librarians fingered the books in which North Carolina's mysterious exile had corrected accounts of the life...
...Beast!" cried Cinemactress Ann Harding as she caught a man peeking into her 7-year-old daughter Jane's stateroom when the S. S. Duchess of Atholl called at Belfast. No sooner had the ship reached Great Britain than a flock of British newshawks descended on Miss Harding, almost got into fist fights with chivalrous passengers who went to her aid, forced her into hysterics long before she reached Liverpool. There she sent Jane ashore separately in disguise, narrowly foiled a fake kidnapping conceived by a British tabloid. Wailed Cinemactress Harding at Belfast: "I'll never permit Jane...
Last year Chief Ragoso left his island for the first time, went to Australia to lecture, learn more about the white man's language and customs. When he returned his wife gave birth to a daughter whom he named Marina after the Duchess of Kent who, he had noticed, was then much in the news. Last week Kata Ragoso. now 34, was striding the streets of San Francisco, his bushy hair blowing, his small white teeth gleaming, his sturdy black legs and large black feet entirely bare beneath the dark-blue serge skirt, of tivi tivi, which distinguished...
...collared oldster Frank Owens Salisbury drew the greatest crowds with his official portrait of King George at the Silver Jubilee services in St. Paul's last year. He loyally entitled this commonplace job The Heart of the Empire. Others portrayed King George riding, the Duke of York, the Duchess of York, their two little princesses. By royal command there was no portrait of Edward VIII...
...Small, self-assured Princess Elizabeth, second in line to the British throne, celebrated her tenth birthday in Windsor Great Park last week. As a special treat, she was allowed to have breakfast downstairs with her father & mother, the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandmother, Queen Mary. Birthday presents from family & friends were hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used...