Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 76, inventor of the Parsons steam turbine, chairman of C. A. Parsons & Co., British engineering firm; aboard the Duchess of Richmond, on a West Indies cruise...
Throughout, Soprano Lucrezia Bori (the Duchess of Towers) acted with perfect grace, sang her English with very little accent. Hardworking, 56-year-old Tenor Edward Johnson was a sensitive, groping Peter, believably youthful. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Colonel Ibbetson) did a thrilling death. Joseph Urban's dream sets gave a happy, springtime effect...
Peter, unhappy ward of swaggering Colonel Ibbetson, lives in the memory of his childhood when as Gogo Pasquier he played in perfect happiness with Mimsey Seraskier. Mimsey grows up to be the lovely Duchess of Towers with whom Peter falls in love. In Paris, near their old home in Passy, the grown-up Gogo and Mimsey meet again. She teaches him that dreams are more important than reality. He kills Colonel Ibbetson and, committed to life imprisonment, lives in a blissful dreamworld with his Mimsey until the Duchess of Towers passes out of real life and comes to take...
Professor Love joy of Johns Hopkins, Professor Montague of Columbia, Professor Morris Cohen of C. C. N. Y., Professor Sheldon of Yale, Professors Duchess and Blake of Brown, and Professor Richards of Cambridge University are a few of the well-known philosophers who will attend the dinner, which will be followed by speeches and a general discussion of philosophy. Most of the guests, including G. Warrington of Cincinnati and Henry Osmond Taylor, travelled a considerable distance to be present at this meeting...
...birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Duchess of York...