Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince George returned to London from Bermuda and Manhattan, last week; and H. R. H. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, hove home from South Africa...
...night a motor car and relays of chauffeurs were kept at the disposal of the Prince. Though refusing all public engagements and most private, H.R.H. kept himself in trim by a daily game of squash racquets with the Duke of York at the Royal Automobile Club. As head of the Regency Council the "High and Mighty Prince" acted pro-tempore with the authority of King and Emperor-except that he did not possess the power of creating Peers, dubbing Knights...
Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
...Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had even received one of these manscripts, a Buddhist scroll of the eighth century, from Duke Lan, a cousin of the Chinese Emperor, against whom I had fought at the time of the siege of the Peking Legation in 1900, but who had since become my friend. Of course I was eager to know more about the find. When I reached Tun-Huang, I was first...
...southern tour will reach-Duke University at Durham, North Carolina University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. North Carolina: North Carolina State College, at Raleigh, North Carolina: Emory University at Atlanta, Gerogia...