Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, he felt moved to announce: "This king stuff is fine, real fine. It's knocking me out-I've blowed my top." Blowed it he had. When the King failed to show up and blow his horn at the Zulu Ball that night, his Duke explained: "Man, that old Satchmo done drunk up all the champagne in this town...
...haired Ballerina-Cinemactress Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) hustled offstage after a concert in Edinburgh and paid her respects to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh without stopping to change costume. She thus demonstrated beautifully that all curtseys to royalty should be executed by ballerinas in short ballet skirts...
Written in 1720 during Handel's sojourn in England, the work--more properly called a pastoral masque--was presented in the country home of the Duke of Chandos...
...State Department publishes its own confidential beginners' guide. Sample information: a tiny coffee cup is a "demi-tasse"; a Queen, in informal conversation, may be called "ma'am," but never "madam"; only severants call a duke "your grace," to a diplomat a duke is just "Duke...
Married. Cristóbal de Carvajal, Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as the only descendant of Christopher Columbus, inherits the title of Admiral of the Indies; and Anunciada Gorosabel y Ramírez de Haro, 22, Madrid socialite; in Madrid...