Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...names: "Henriet, Quartermaster of the Luneville Dragoons, son of M. Henriet & Mme nee de Gail." A German officer sprang up to demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted to internment in a prison camp...
Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York...
Lady Charles Cavendish, long famed as U S. Dancer Adele Astaire, was to have been presented by her new mother-in-law, the Duchess of Devonshire. Pleading acute rheumatism, the Duchess stayed at home. Lady Cavendish was presented by Mabell, Countess of Airlie...
...impenetrable disguise.* The editorial introduction urges the substitution of a financial-economic system cut to fit the present age of plenty in place of one that is tailored by the banking system expressly for a machine-murdered age of want. Contributors include Hilaire Belloc and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Will Dyson, onetime cartoonist of the Labor Party's Daily Herald, prints a scathing etching; Paul Banks reviews the drama, Storm Jameson, novels. From a "Western Newspaper Man" Editor Orage has received and amazingly printed a scurrilous parody of the 23rd Psalm which has for many months circulated...
...George V and Edward of Wales should both die (or if the latter should renege), the Duke of York would become King Albert I, the Duchess Queen Elizabeth...