Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michelson, now publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, was born. Tumultous Virginia City was no place to raise a family, although the small clothing store the father operated was prosperous. The Michelsons moved to Calaveras, Calif., birthplace in 1870 of Miriam Michelson, dramatic critic and author (Petticoat King, Duchess of Suds). Three years later the "big bonanza" broke at Virginia City. Miners took $21,000,000 of silver ore from the Comstock Lode in one year. The Mackays, Fairs, O'Briens and Floods became multimillionaires...
...champagne district). To View many a splendorous gift (a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun, family busts and miniatures, a Stradivarius violin for the bride who fiddles ably) came members of the beau monde?U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to Poland John North Willys, the Duchess of Manchester, Mrs. Marshall Field, the Duchess de Guise, whose son married Princess Isabelle of Orleans-Braganza last month (TIME, April 20), and Lord Tyrrell and Conte-Manzoni, the British and Italian Ambassadors to France...
Maria Isabel. Almost forgotten by the press and people of Madrid, Alfonso's aged aunt the Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain was left behind in the Palace when the rest of the family fled. Ill and past 80 years old, looking almost exactly like the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* she was not told of the revolution or of the flight of the family for fear the news would be too much for her. But the frenzy, the shouting in the streets reached even her tired ears...
...King's henchmen will be pleased and surprised at his performance in this, his first nonsinging dramatic role in six years. No longer a roaring Villon. Mr. King, in an auburn wig, makes a convincingly demure and sensitive Ibbetson. Jessie Royce Landis is adequate as the kind-hearted Duchess of Towers. Valerie Taylor's Mrs. Deane is astonishingly ill-motivated for such a capable actress...
...known for weeks. Miss Bennett is about to marry her brother's great & good friend, Canada's new Minister to the U. S., William Duncan ("Bill") Herridge (TIME, March 23). It was not formally announced until just before Lord & Lady Bessborough landed last week from the Duchess of Bedford...