Word: duchess
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...Duchess, Lady Rosemary, the Duke's daughter, and two visiting lords also served as guides. "The carpet," Lady Rosemary told a clutch of gapers in the tapestry-hung hall of state, "is considered very fine. We really shouldn't be standing on it, but it's difficult...
...Everything went off fine," said the Duchess, dropping wearily into a chair at the end of the first week. "The people behaved wonderfully. They left hardly any litter. But I still think," she confessed, "that the best place to live is an electrically run cottage...
...court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful to an enemy." His hand thrust into his trouser pocket, Fuchs whispered: "Guilty." In the visitors' gallery, which was packed with distinguished spectators, the Duchess of Kent toyed with her salmon-pink rose corsage...
...Akron last week, Chairman Litchfield announced that work had begun on a $5,000,000 tire factory on the duchess' old land. When finished, it will turn out some 600 tires a day, provide jobs for 500 Luxembourg workers...
...Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand Duchess Charlotte herself. Last fall she agreed to sell...