Word: duchess
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...baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck of the Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph...
After five days in Palm Beach the Duchess of Windsor, who in 1936 was willing to leave England but not by air, stepped with her Duke aboard Harold Vanderbilt's commodious Lockheed Lodestar, flew back to the Bahamas on her first flight through...
Another distinguished Lowlander was Lucien Brouha, Belgian Physiologist who arrived on the same boat as the Duke and Duchess. Lately he has been living-on-a-gallop between the Fatigue Laboratory and Washington, where his knowledge of the scientific aspects of feeding Europe has been as welcome as milk to a kitten...
...united kingdom over to his nephew at the end of his regency. These people said his appeasement of Yugoslavia's Croat minority was directed toward that end. His enemies said he was a weakling, prodded by his wife, Princess Olga of Greece (whose sister is Britain's Duchess of Kent), into immense ambitions, even the ambition to rule all the Slavs, including the Russians. These people said Hitler played on Prince Paul's ambition. Certain it is that Regent Prince Paul struggled for days to get together a Cabinet that would yield to Hitler's demands...
...heroine of Ida is purportedly modeled on the Duchess of Windsor. That fact need trouble no one, short of a tenth reading or so. Ida is a woman who likes to rest, to talk to herself, to move around. In the course of her lifetime she has several dogs, marries several men (mostly Army officers), lives in several of the 48 States. She seems at times to be some sort of dim, potent symbol or half-goddess, sometimes a plain case of schizophrenia, sometimes a stooge for Miss Stein. In the long run, after several icily beautiful pages of suspense...