Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Lord Mayor came the Royal Family's processions, the Duke of York's two carriages, with "Baby Betty" and the newlywed Duchess of Kent rival attractions. As heir to the Throne, Edward of Wales drove out smartly with a cavalcade of Life Guards, his grave aunt, Queen Maud of Norway, at his side and opposite the Duke of Gloucester. As the grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side...
...earliest, most famed of composopraphs. the Venus of Urbino has the head of the wealthy, potent Duchess of Urbino attached to the body of a honey skinned Venetian strumpet. "The position of the left hand," wrote Mark Twain, "is one of the most brazen pieces of impudicity I have ever looked upon...
Venice's great Titian exhibition honored no anniversary. Recently the Italian Government acquired the Pesaro Palace from the Duchess Bevilacqua la Masa to use as a museum of modern art. Because Titian knew both the house and the Pesaro family well, once painted a famous view of the building, the palace was decided upon as the ideal place to have a loan exhibition of Titians. Professor Barbantini who wrote the letters, pulled the wires and did most of the spade work to make the exhibition possible, had another name for his show. He called it a Tribute of Regret...
...still far from exhausted, are now beginning again to be reworked. Nineteenth Century romancers like Walter Scott and Charles Reade brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author...
Twenty-four hours later, at Alapayevsk, six more captive Romanovs and two of their faithful followers met an even harder death. Grand Dukes Sergius, Ivan, Constantine and Igor, Grand Duchess Elisabeth, Prince Vladimir Paley, Secretary Romez, Nun Barbara Yakovleva were taken to an abandoned mine and thrown down a shaft. According to Investigator Sokolov, all were still alive after the fall except Sergius. The hand-grenades that were thrown down after them killed Romez; the rest died more lingeringly...