Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Househunters huffed loudly when Philip and Elizabeth were given huge Clarence House, once the London home of Queen Victoria's "sailor son," the Duke of Edinburgh, as an extra residence. Rationed housewives snorted at news stories of visiting royalty wining & dining at public expense. But for many another Londoner, the wedding was a happy excuse to forget personal hardships, to sentimentalize and enjoy again the elaborate and almost forgotten pageantry of royalty on display. "Why, I can feel myself getting excited already," said a City office girl a week before the event...
...glad to be the only one left, but I will say that I am certainly happy to be here." There was a marked difference between most of Forbes's new "leaders" and "the crop of 1917. Then they were empire-builders such as Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller. The leaders of 1947 are largely managers...
...year round in a dense fog-that will indeed be a deprivation. It was a land which we had all learned to love . . . it had a quaint, dreamlike charm all of its own. Its House of Commons (in which Sir Aubrey Smith almost always sat, often as a duke), though generally rather smaller than our own, was infinitely more animated as well as being better lit. . . . Its policemen, barely discernible as they patrolled the fog-bound streets, resembled our own; but . . . they never took their thumbs out of their belts, and the only traffic they were called on to regulate...
...Paris, high-styled Harper's Bazaar might or might not soon lose its local correspondent. Leg-girl Doris Duke's groom of seven weeks, Porfirio Rubirosa, was appointed Dominican Ambassador to Argentina...
...Duke & Duchess of Montoro, married last fortnight in a Seville ceremony surrounded by a splendor of plush and fine feathers (TIME, Oct. 20), arrived in Manhattan on their honeymoon, looking glad to be out of it all even if they were the daughter of the Duke of Alba and the fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor...