Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, 73, Speaker of the House of Commons since 1928, Conservative M.P. for 38 years; in London...
Sixty post-debs of '39 and earlier vintages came in brightly colored ball dresses, but the '40 debs wore demure Court gowns of white. Two ventured crinolines, Lady Cecilia Fitzroy, cousin of the Duke of Grafton, Miss Mary Philippa Gary, niece of Viscount Falkland. Since Britain is bent on making this a democratic war, privates in uniform did not have to stay off the dance floor, as in 1914-8, twirled about the Great Room of the Grosvenor on a social par with their officers. With healthy appetites, debs and escorts gobbled large slices of the vast cake...