Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock one evening this week the Duchess of Kent, chatting merrily with Lord and Lady Portarlington, got in her car outside her house in London's Belgrave Square and drove off with her guests to the cinema to see Wuthering Heights. Not until she returned hours later did the Duchess learn that she had narrowly missed being shot by an assassin...
...about tidying up London. This spring a considerably more livable London is celebrating the L. C. C.'s jubilee with all manner of polite and showy functions, not the least of which will be a firemen's parade in June for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. To add its voice to the general huzza, the Gas Light and Coke Co. this month released in London a 20-minute documentary film called The Londoners, sketching London life from Dickens' day to the present...
French caricaturists like Debucourt and Vernet were more delicate if less vigorous draftsmen, though they early showed a fondness for scatological as well as lubricous humor. To such a gross commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...
Although she does not rate as a royal highness, the Duchess of Windsor loves royal ado of all kinds. Last week the Duke bought her a truly royal present-one of the eleven Norwegian platinum fox pelts in the world. Price: $1,722.50. Some days earlier he had also taken her to Biarritz to see some royal statuary-a bust of Queen Victoria, the Duke'sgreat-grandmother, designed by the French Sculptor Maxime Réal del Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust...
Lawrence took no interest in women but was sometimes friendly, usually polite. But Liddell Hart tells of his sitting at dinner next a French duchess who gushed about the marvelous nights in the East. "Sweaty, aren't they?" said...