Word: duchess
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...Iron Duke (Gaumont-British) exhibits the Duke of Wellington before, during and after Waterloo. An arch and finicky general, he seems to enjoy himself more at the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels than when discharging his military duties. Nonetheless, when he hears that "Boney" is advancing on the city, the Iron Duke drags himself from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild...
Died. Grand Duchess Alice of Tuscany, 85, widow of Grand Duke Ferdinand IV who lost his throne in 1860, mother of Archduke Leopold Ferdinand who went into trade, became famed as "Leopold the Greengrocer"; in Salzburg, Austria. In reduced circumstances, she had lately turned one of her villas into a rooming house...
...scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives a ball for the Allied forces at Brussels, but when a courier gallops up with word that Napoleon has marched his myriad zealots to the city gates, England's finest leave a half empty punch bowl to march forth amid the plaudits of the multitude...
...Duchess of York purchased at a charity bazaar a fluffy woolen scarf knitted by the Duke of York...
...suppressed speech Dr. Maniu in tended to say further that he had counted, as Premier, upon a reconciliation between King Carol and the wife he abandoned for jolly Wench Lupescu, beauteous Queen Helen, the cousin of the Duchess of Kent. "It was our purpose after this reconciliation had been effected," Dr. Maniu would have said if he could, "to proceed to the joint coronation of Their Majesties...