Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That inveterate prowler among palaces, Mr. Arthur H. Beaven, unearthed the following surprising secret as long ago as 1901: "There is now an electrophone communication between York House and the leading London theatres in order that the Duke and Duchess of York may listen to the various entertainments in the privacy of their abode." Court gossips report that since Edward of Wales came into residence, he has preferred to go to the theatre himself...
Marlborough House. About Marlborough House there still stalk, allegedly, the shades of the great Duke of Marlborough, "who taught uncertain battles where to rage," and his Duchess, the madcap Sarah, the wisest fool that ever time has made." Sarah, as everyone knows, deliberately slighted the great architect Vanbrugh by employing Sir Christopher Wren to design the "House" for her. Said she, when it was finished: "It cost ?50,000*. . . not really so extravagant, because it is the strongest and best house that was ever built...
That night the concierges of numerous hotels explained. The Duke of Aosta, gracious cugino (cousin) of His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele, had merely been greeted with the honors due his rank when he called upon famed Soldier-Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio at the latter's villa beside the lake...
...Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight...
...Nearly every outstanding American business leader, no matter how little schooling he may have had originally, manages to become respectably well educated. Duke palpably failed...