Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HELL! SAID THE DUCHESS-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2). A trickster in a tricky trade. Author Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) has altered the cut of his books at fashion's wink. Ladies in green hats are long passées, but duchesses are never out of style. Hell! Said the Duchess is nicely calculated to tickle the fancy of detective-story addicts, of tycoons tired of trilogies, of all persons except young children who are for the moment sick of being serious...
...month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum was installed as a special adviser. One of the first things she did was to move the millinery department down to the street floor, with the result that hat sales tripled. New departments were organized, floors remodeled, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia installed to run a photography studio. Last week at the president's desk in her walnut-paneled office Mrs. Odlum announced her slogan: "High class but not high hat." Last week Founder Bonwit retired, ostensibly because of ill health. General Manager Walter Bonwit, son of the founder, remains...
Thirty-six years ago the Duchess of York, five years married and four years a mother, went down to Blackwall on the Thames below London docks to launch the 12,500-ton battleship Albion. Plunging into the water the great mass of steel piled up such a backwave that it swamped a landing stage on which 200 men, women and children were crowded. Nearly all of them were flung into the Thames. Fifty were drowned...
...Glory be!" cried a delighted char, "she's prettier than the Duchess of York!" and this impression seemed to be general. Stepping into a big Daimler, George and Marina held hands on the short drive to St. James's Palace, waved their free hands at a surging populace which pelted flowers and roared "Welcome our Princess!" until excited Marina was seen to brush tears of joy from her eyes...
...things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their need of metal can be staved off for a time." . . . Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 18, found Russia "dirty and buggy." . . . Fannie Hurst thanked God "that we are not a singing country yet." . . . Grand Duchess Marie said she was going to be a commercial photographer but had lost her camera. . . . Peggy Hopkins Joyce raged that she was not about to make Peppy D'Albrew her sixth husband...