Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your issue of Aug. 12, p. 50, under Medicine refers to drunkenness. I am moved by this article to give you the definition of Dean Samuel F. Mordecai, late of the Law School of Duke University...
...Here I am at camp after visiting Oxford," wrote Scout John Fridolin Streiff to his parents. "After two months of drought we brought the rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...
...mist of the wild highlands, bemoaning their sins, brooding on Hell. Last week the "Wee Frees' " Assembly Commission met awesomely at Edinburgh. Before the day was out various Commissioners had censured as "Sabbath-breakers" not only Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald but Their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of York...
...hawk-featured, beetle-browed Commissioner William Fraser of Govan who rose to reveal that "on the Sabbath-day previous to this assembly" the Duke and Duchess of York jointly bestowed medals on ambulance attendants at Forfar on the edge of the Scotch Highlands...
Every now and then, when buxom Queen Marie of Jugoslavia has a son, Great Britain's Duke of York packs his bags and travels to Belgrade to act as Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor...