Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York returned last week from their Australian tour (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), in the course of which they inaugurated the new Federal Capital of Australia at Canberra (TIME, May 16), and circumnavigated the globe...
...Grand Duke Nicholas,* who was annointed as the Tsar of Russia a little over a year ago by a White Russian Congress that met in Paris, was to take the field early, in July, operating from Poland. He was to put himself at the head of an army of 85,000 White Russians secretly gathered there...
...secret circular issued by Grand Duke Nicholas, he assured his emissaries within Soviet Russia that Britain had undertaken to finance the campaign...
Nikolai Nikolaievich. The White Russian Congress referred to by Dictator Stalin presented an appeal as follows to the 71-year-old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich in Paris (TIME, April 19, 1926) : "Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
...with whom the public mind associates The Philosophy of Love and the theory of IT,† here takes hold of an unusually refreshing bit of froth, only to flatten it with her usual pomposity. The heroine, a little Miss Main Street, is infatuated with the-idea of marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality and the sugar plum go down together...