Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's marriage license bureau went large, ruddy William Angus Drogo Montagu, 55, ninth Duke of Manchester, and Miss Kathleen Dawes, 34, daughter of a London theatrical manager. Both had arrived from England few days before, preceded by news that the divorce decree of the Duchess of Manchester, the former Helena Zimmerman, daughter of the late Cincinnati Brewer Eugene Zimmerman, had just been made final. Mayor James John Walker waited at City Hall to marry them. But because the Duke had no copy of the final decree, and because New York law forbids the marriage of an adulterous divorce...
...Russia, who you stated in TIME, Oct. 12, was booked on the S. S. Ile de France, for the U. S., sailing Oct. 16, same time Premier Laval came over. A few club women of this section desire the Romanov's whereabouts explained. We have been reading Grand Duchess Marie's Education of a Princess this summer, and cannot shake off the sensation of being sort o' responsible for her brother's comfortable, uneclipsed safety. That the sparkling Mlle Laval had not spied him on board was readily surmised by accurate accounts of the landing...
Among buzzing guests in the Picture Gallery several startled the rest by recalling that this was not the first Gandhi-George V meeting. In 1901 the Indian community of Durban, South Africa welcomed the then Duke & Duchess of York, now Their Majesties, with a reception at which Lawyer M. K. Gandhi made the principal address. In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion. Last week potent St. Gandhi created a sensation by leaving the royal teaparty before no other guest. "Personally I have very little time for social functions," said he. "Both Their Majesties were...
...smiled a clerk. "It is by Tintoretto you know.* Until a few weeks ago it belonged to the estate of the late Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.† Professor Frank Jewett Mather is trying to buy it for Princeton University, and we value it at between...
Brother of best-selling Grand Duchess (Education of a Princess) Marie, tall, fascinating Dmitri assisted Prince Felix Youssoupov to poison, shoot and drown the notorious "Black Monk" Gregory Efimovitch Rasputin. Hostesses are warned that the question "Do tell us all about it!" instantly freezes Grand Duke Dmitri into hurt hauteur...