Word: duchessed
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...never fully engaged his energies. Politics consumed him. His father Lord Randolph Churchill was a brilliant political failure. Early in life, Winston determined to succeed where his father had failed. His motives were twofold. His father had despised him. Writing in August 1893 to Winston's grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Marlborough, he said the boy lacked "cleverness, knowledge and any capacity for settled work. He has a great talent for show-off, exaggeration and make-believe." His disapproval surely stung, but Churchill reacted by venerating his father's memory. Winston fought to restore his father's honor in Parliament...
...Sale price of a 2.4 oz. piece of cake from the 1937 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that was auctioned off last week...
...been up to Oscar Wilde, there would be no auction this week of the private property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, or any such event. Writing a sonnet in 1895, "On the Sale by Auction" of John Keats' love letters to Fanny Brawne, Wilde compared the "brawlers of the auction mart" to the Roman soldiers who tossed dice for the garments of Jesus...
Harmless snootiness, if you ask me. And auctions can be a lot of fun, which is why they have lasted. But they can also be tasteless and stupid, and revealing of us. When we get all excited about the idea of owning a love letter from a duchess to a duke, we ought to be embarrassed; it simply shows us up as dirty little snoops...
...DUCHESS Fergie and the Queen enjoy a Christmas reconciliation. The toe sucking's under the bridge...