Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach, Calif. hospital with a knife wound in his chest was retired Naval Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, 54, divorced first husband of the Duchess of Windsor. His wife, No. 4, said that his knife had slipped as he was trying to open a bottle of ketchup some time before...
Among the Canteen's visitors have been Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor (same evening), Lord & Lady Halifax, Herbert Hoover. Among its 300 entertainers each week have been Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Grace Moore, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman. Other tidbits...
That familiar trio of flags that hang on the west side of University Hall is a pretty fair indicator of unusual events occurring around Harvard. For instance, when the Duchess of Luxembourg visited last fall, a flurry of reds, blues, and purples made by the three flags of Uncle Sam, Luxembourg, and Harvard announced the approach of royalty...
...heard a panting behind him. Relax, Ted, he thought, you don't have to fill it all yourself. But Vag had been fooled by the dark. It was only when the furry frightened creature crept closer whimpering "Oh dear, oh dear, I'll be late. What will the Duchess say?" that he realized. One of Mike's cuddly rabbits; Disney will never live it down. Vag jumped as the match burned...
...York Press she covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom in the whole bloody place...