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Her Majesty's mother, Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was a large, blocky woman of tremendous, athletic vitality, and of a personal magnetism so great that she was sometimes called "the most popular princess of her time." The present Queen and Empress forged her own naturally retiring and bashful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entente Strengthened | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Soon a pretty Tsarist girl, who has Americanized her lame into "Miss Catherine Bary" and became a designer, mounted the stage with a bunch of roses which she extended toward Speaker Kerensky. As he bent forward to accept them she struck him three times across the left cheek with her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Thrice-Slapped Cheek | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fireless Cooking | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

She was to be married in June. Most of her trousseau was ready. Her fiancé, Edward Sullivan, sports editor of the Macfadden New York Evening Graphic, was sitting at her bedside in a Chicago hospital. Flowers from Gertrude Ederle, Jack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and many another were brought in by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sybil Bauer | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Three sizzling reindeer steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Half-Marriage | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

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