Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honest Duchess. The Lords of Appeal, topped by puffy Lord Chief Justice of England Baron Hewart, last week saved from languishing in jail 3% of Britain's dukes-i. e. one,. His Grace the Duke of Manchester, spendthrift extraordinary and bankrupt plenipotentiary...
...recently: "I had not a care in the world before my second marriage but my position is different now. I am married to a woman who has never owed a penny in her life. She does not understand how one comes to incur debts. I am worried because the Duchess is worried. Otherwise, I would not have a single care in the world." In sombre mood last week His Grace was led out of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, promptly had himself declared bankrupt once more and vanished from London, his lawyers announcing, "The Duke of Manchester is resting in the country...
...rushed to the turf, squealing "Well done, Freddie! Thank you, thank you, Freddie!" An attendant whispered something into his ear which caused the brown man to recover his dignity, waddle quickly off to the box where King George, Queen Mary, Edward of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York and the rest of the royal family were sitting. There he shook hands with His Majesty, issued a more coherent statement of his satisfaction for members of the Press: "I am delighted to have won, especially as this is the King's Jubilee Year." The big brown...
...Duchess, Helena, daughter of Cincinnati Railroad Tycoon Eugene Zimmerman, started divorce proceedings in England in 1931. When she let them lag the impatient Duke went to Cuba, got a quick divorce, married a onetime British actress named Kathleen Dawes...
Died. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox. 64, eighth Duke of Richmond, Lennox, Gordon and D'Aubigny, head of a house founded by a bastard son of King Charles II and the Duchess of Portsmouth; at Goodwood, England. Lord of 250,000 acres (including famed Goodwood race track and a forest in which, traditionally, no birds lived), he was crippled by spinal meningitis during the War, got about in a nifty wheel chair...