Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11½, 46¢, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...
Engaged. Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklem-bourg, 21; to Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach-Schoenberg, Prince of Michelstadt and of Odenwald, Hessen, Germany, 26; with the consent of the Cabinet of the Dutch Government...
...Seraskier and Peter. After an idyllic childhood with Mimsey in Paris, Peter is orphaned, goes to England to live with an uncle whose chief delights are wenching and lying about wenching. Peter leaves the uncle's house when life becomes intolerable, goes to London where he meets the beauteous Duchess of Towers?Mimsey grown up. Before they part "forever" she tells him how to "dream true," how to live in a world of fantasy...
...Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl, M. P. ... LL.D...
...hope of relief for great personages offered in the reply of Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, London Evening News, etc., etc. "Speaking professionally," said he, "I do not know what the newspapers would do without the Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth. There is not a newspaper in the country in which there is not a strict instruction that the closest watch be kept ... on them...