Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FOUR WINDSOR BROTHERS-Edward (Prince of Wales), Albert (Duke of York), Prince Henry, Prince George...
Russia. Even today some 30,000 of these "Knights" maintain themselves by agricultural labor in Bulgaria & Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926); and stand ready, as a functioning, militant unit to render fealty to the Russian whom they recognize as "Tsar"-the Grand Duke Nicholai Nicholaievich, who resides in prudent retirement near Paris (TIME, April...
...when Baron Wrangel found himself failing in health, he offered the allegiance of his "White Knights" unreservedly to the Grand Duke Nicholai and himself retired to live quietly in Brussels. There he has been attended by only a few faithful followers, among them the Russian Archpriest who, last week, administered to him last rites...
With commendable enterprise, newspapers fought for airplanes. In amazing time, the first got through; C. A. ("Duke") Schiller and Dr. Louis Cuisinier risked their lives in the flight, almost as dangerous in that stormy maelstrom as the plunge across the Atlantic. More planes started up, with insanely jealous cameramen, writers, mechanics, until the frozen corner of Canada began to bulge...
...auctions; this is $370,000 which Sir Joseph Duveen paid for Lawrence's Pinkie, in England. The world's record price for a single painting was also paid by Sir Joseph Duveen; $850,000 for Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, which he bought direct from the Duke of Westminster...