Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace the Duke of Northumberland has good reason to remember that Benjamin ("Ben") Tillett once said: "So Percy* don't approve of the dole,? don't he? Why his dole for doing nothing is £20,000 ($97,200) a week...
...Duke's excessively ancestral surname...
...against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough's wedding...
...Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, had been scheduled to efface himself, thus leaving Edward of Wales in accustomed prominence. But just before Their Royal Highnesses' ship docked at Mombasa, East Africa, an interview was given out by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog of South Africa, in which he clearly indicated a wish that the Duke of Gloucester might assume the Governor-Generalship of the Union of South Africa...
...rebuking this trend, Mr. Hertzog let slip an indication of his wish respecting the Duke of Gloucester, and then went on to flay Pretorian republicans, especially parsons who preach republicanism from their pulpits...