Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...
...Duke's impeded speech was brought painfully to public attention at the Wembley Exposition of 1925. Standing before a battery of amplifiers, H. R. H., as President of the Exposition, commenced a brief address, consisting almost entirely of syllables. The current had not been turned on, the Duke's voice could not be heard more than a few feet away. He turned to the exposition chairman seated beside him, just as electricians turned on the loud speakers full force. Instantly a Gargantuan voice boomed through the Stadium: "THE D-D-D-DAMN THINGS...
About three years ago, however, the Duke of York met one Lionel Logue, oral specialist from Australia. Last week Britain rang with joyful news. The Duke's stuttering was so nearly cured that he could say "King" without preliminary cackles. Alone among specialists Dr. Logue had discerned that the ducal impediment was physical, not mental. He had prescribed massage and throat exercises...
JACOBO MARIA DEL PILAR CARLOS MANUEL STUART FITZ-JAMES. roth DUKE OF BERWICK, 27th DUQUE DE ALBA de Tonnes. Duque de Liria y Xerica, de Arjona, de Montoro y de Huescar, CONDE-DUQUE DE OLIVARES, MARQUES DEL CARPIO. Marques de Coria, de Eliche, de la Mota, de San Leonardo, de Sarria, de Taragona, de Villanueva del Rio. de Villanueva del Fresno, de Barcarrota y de la Algaba, 24th CONDE DE LEMOS, Conde de Lerin, de Monterrey, de Osorno, de Miranda del Castanar, de Andrade, de Fuentes de Valdepero, de Gelves, de Villalba, de San Esteban de Gormaz, de Fuentiduena...
...South: Duke v. North Carolina at Durham; Georgia v. Georgia Tech at Athens; Louisiana Tech v. South Western Louisiana Institute at Ruston; Maryland v. Western Maryland at Baltimore; Tennessee v. South Carolina at Knoxville...