Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Royal Highnesses, Albert and Elizabeth, Duke and Duchess of York, son and daughter-in-law to George V, likewise attended last week at Swansea, were initiated into the Gorsedd (Order) of Bards without being obliged to swim or sing...
...life, Reynolds frightened him. In the first place, Romney had been born behind the vulgar door of trade. His father was a cabinetmaker. Reynolds was of the gentry, a clergyman's son. And Reynolds would take for mistress nothing less than a duchess with ten quarterings, while Romney had only Emma-gentle Emma Hart, who later became Lady Hamilton, whom he was forever
...slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School...
...five other female M. P.'s are Viscountess Astor, the Duchess of Athol, Mrs. Hilton Philipson, Miss E. Wilkinson and Miss Susan Lawrence...
...SUNKEN GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble...