Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cohn, the general, possibly recalling the sad consequences which overtook Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens after he obligingly posed with Army Private G. David Schine, retorted with a stiff, military "Hell, no!" Swinging down into the U.S. after a three-week royal tour of Canada, Britain's handsome Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, 17, set Manhattan hostesses' knees trembling to curtsy, boards ready to groan. But the Duchess, whose U.S. visit is unofficial, apparently evaded most of the lacquered talons, went quietly about sightseeing like any other tourist in the big city for the first...
...Agamemnon's captain and first officer moved into second-class quarters to make room for the Greek King and Queen. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg parked her duds in the chief engineer's bunk. Ex-King Michael of Rumania and his honey-haired wife Anne were berthed in a double stateroom...
Unabashedly, the crowd-distinguished by such personages as Sweden's King Gustave, the Duchess of Kent-made "Old Drob" its sentimental favorite. The son of the grounds keeper and the checkroom attendant at Prague's old Ice Hockey and Lawn Tennis Club, he had worked his way into the fashionable world of topflight tennis through the back door, as a ballboy...
...comic possibilities and has not hesitated to seek advice in other fields. After a Manhattan conference with "someone in Cardinal Spellman's office," he decided not to use Cardinal de Richelieu as his main villain. The leading lady is British Actress Dawn Addams, who will be downgraded to duchess from her real-life position of Princess Massimo. Aramis has been changed from an ex-seminarian to a scholarly type; Porthos has become only a fat man interested in food, and Athos has shifted from the melancholy husband of Madame de Winter to a clothes-conscious wolf. Explains Lerner: "When...
...Louis XIV was maliciously pleased to describe him as "almost,the only English gentleman he had seen." Buckingham could "fix" anything, from a political treaty to a royal date: it was he, for example, who introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynn and arranged for the King to discover the Duchess of Cleveland in bed with Jack Churchill. He dabbled in chemistry, playwriting, poetry and music, and' his swordsmanship was such that peaceful men turned pale and ladies swooned when he strode into their presence. Along with his fellow rakes, Buckingham was in and out of the royal favor like...