Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, some were for dropping the harp altogether and substituting, say, a picture of Kathleen ni Houlihan. But Kathleen's traditional picture turned out to be posed by a mistress of King Charles II, the very Duchess of Richmond who posed as Britannia...
Born. To Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 27, youngest of Britain's nonroyal dukes, and the Duchess of Rutland, 22, ex-Mayfair model, once known as "the girl with the perfect figure": their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: undecided. Weight...
...dressmakers, was Mrs. Howard Hawks, the Hollywood producer's wife, who was not among the top ten the year before. The rest of the latest ten-best-dressed were mostly old familiars who had been on & off various lists for years-e.g., Mrs. Harrison Williams, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart...
...Duchess of Kent, one of England's handsomest women, opened a maternity ward in St. George's Hospital by snipping a tape, concentrated so furiously on doing justice to the job in hand that the witnessing cameras did less than justice to herself...
...Barea's self-command, worn down by the daily bloody destruction of children and women in Madrid's streets, finally broke. A fistful of quivering brains, stuck to a plate-glass window after a shell burst (he was escorting the visiting Duchess of Atholl at the time), shocked and nauseated him. He could no longer deal coolly with the bureaucratic intrigues that entangled him. In early 1938, he got the Government's permission to leave Spain with his wife. They crossed the frontier from Barcelona to France, to live in poverty and write...