Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURHAM N.C.--Two Duke University students tried to commit suicide during exam period recently...
Beaton dines with Oscar Wilde's son, who tells him that when his father was disgraced, society was so outraged that even dogs called Oscar were renamed. He is with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor just before their wedding, and notes how hurt and surprised that naive gentleman was that so few of his friends had accepted invitations. He describes his rather comical romance with Greta Garbo, in which both of them circled like brilliant birds, not wanting to muss their pretty plumage with what would inevitably be a messy embrace...
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger
...vast displeasure of King Edward VII, to whom they belonged, the so-called Irish Crown Jewels vanished in 1907 from a safe in Dublin Castle, never to be recovered. The crowning insult was that the investigation threatened to embrangle Edward's brother-in-law, the playboy Duke of Argyll, in a homosexual scandal. As a result, the friends of Edward VII "perpetrated a cover-up that makes the Watergate Affair appear the work of backward children...
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon andthe Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky ∙White House Years, Henry Kissinger