Word: duchess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Burglars broke into the London house of the tenth Duke & Duchess of Rutland, carried off $28,000 worth of furs, jewelry, oddments. But first they polished off a bottle of the duke's best Scotch, and gnawed a few apples. The duke (once reportedly a swain of Princess Elizabeth's) and the duchess (a former dress model) refused to have thier vacation spoiled, left next day for South Africa, as planned...
...annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary...
...both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...
Baltimoreans, observing their city's 150th anniversary, nominated their greatest citizen. The late Financier-Philanthropist Johns Hopkins won first place, the late Cardinal Gibbons second, Edgar Allan Poe, third. Way down the list, but on it with 21 votes: the Duchess of Windsor...
Christie's friends, Painters Reynolds and Gainsborough, taught him the value of "stained rags"; Christie's descendants and their successors (the last Christie in the firm died in 1889) have never forgotten the lessons. Paintings now comprise the bulk of their sales. In 1876 Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described as "the greatest this country has ever seen." Christie's privately sold Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Reynolds' Tragic Muse for ?200,000 to California...