Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
Amber married three others (in due succession), became a rich, widowed Countess. That was her high estate when she met King Charles II. "His dark lazy eyes stirred the embers of desire, at which [her husbands] had rudely raked but never once brought into flame." Charles made Amber a Duchess and Lady of the Bedchamber, had her painted "on a heap of black cushions, unashamedly naked...
Born. To the Duke of Gloucester, 44, Governor General-select of Australia, and his Scottish Duchess, 42: their second child, second son, fifth in direct succession to the throne; in London. Weight...
...leftish German author of the pow erful novels, Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success, has written a leftish French novel which was inspired by Joan of Arc in somewhat the same way that Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette was inspired by the Virgin of Lourdes. But Feuchtwanger's inspiration is less successful...
...Duke of Windsor made his ninth trip to the U.S. since he became Governor of the Bahamas in 1940. With him, making her seventh, was his Duchess. They planned to spend a month in Manhattan, perhaps visit his Canadian ranch (see CANADA...