Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of York was the daughter of a peer and as such enjoyed before her marriage the courtesy title Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. She was none the less technically a commoner. Upon her marriage she assumed the rank and style of her husband, namely she is a princess of the United Kingdom with the style Royal Highness...
...Under the British Law the succession is: first, the Duke of York; second, his elder daughter Princess Elizabeth; third, her younger sister Princess Margaret Rose; fourth the Duke of Gloucester; fifth, the Duke of Kent; sixth, his son Prince Edward; seventh, Princess Mary; eighth, her elder son who enjoys the courtesy title of Viscount Lascelles; ninth, his brother Master Gerald David Lascelles...
...British hanged Robert Emmet, and his brother Thomas emigrated to the U. S. with his wife and daughter Elizabeth, who had a pretty talent in drawing. A fellow passenger on the packet was a portrait painter and steamboat designer named Robert Fulton, who set about improving Elizabeth Emmet's gift. Within eight years Thomas Emmet was Attorney General of the State of New York and Elizabeth Emmet was beginning her career as a portrait painter...
...legal and political figures in the Atlantic states. The females have inherited the Emmet artistic talent. Last week Manhattan's Arden Galleries held a family show of five generations of the Emmet women's paintings. The 130 exhibits by 14 artists begin with nine portraits by Immigrant Elizabeth Emmet (1794-1878), and end with nine sculptures by Great-Great-Grandniece Julia Townsend, aged 22, and with two by Beulah Emmet, aged...
...ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...