Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According to newspaper reports, people clamored and paid admission for the purpose of curtseying and kissing the hand of these pretenders (reference to the recent visit of the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (TIME, Dec. 15) in a manner so un-American that it would have been shocking were it not so ridiculously stupid...
Scott, fifth daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Prince George is not to marry pretty and lively Poppy Baring, daughter of Sir Godfrey and Lady Baring, but is to be sent to join the Fleet in China...
...good "bag" was expected, as the camp was surrounded by lions and many other carnivora. The Duke had previously shot a zebra and a pallah (antelope). The Duchess "bagged" a great collection of small game...
...Among the American peeresses present: Countess Beatty, Duchess of Marlborough, Viscountess Astor, Countess of Galloway, Countess of Carnarvon...
...FIREBRAND?Benvenuto Cellini turned into modern bedroom farce, the infidelities of a duchess and general irreverence toward the times of wigs, tights and swordplay...