Word: henrietta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second to bear the Marlborough title was no duke but a duchess. In the absence of a male heir to the first duke-whose only son died of smallpox in 1703-an act of Parliament permitted the dukedom to pass in the female line. His daughter Henrietta (1681-1733) succeeded him as second Duchess, became a great and good friend of Playwright William Congreve...
...United Nations often find it hard to keep their U.N. delegations up to strength. Budgets cannot stand the cost of salaries for a full complement, and qualified, self-supporting volunteers are rare. Last year Costa Rica's U.N. Ambassador Alberto Canas found one-a charming Alabaman named Henrietta Boggs, 37. Her Costa Rican qualification: marriage from 1942 to 1953 to President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Her means of support, Pepe's alimony...
...Henrietta agreed to Canas' proposal, got the appointment okayed by Pepe ("Still the most wonderful man I've ever met") and settled into a seat on the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee until the Eleventh General Assembly session ended last March. For her successor in the current session, Ambassador Canas found someone of equal qualifications and charm. His choice: New York-born Karen Olsen de Figueres, 27, President Figueres' wife since...
King was no preacher, nor did he pretend to any particular piety-at least not until he fell in love with Henrietta Chamberlain, the Presbyterian minister's daughter he finally married. He was not exactly a fugitive from justice, but at eleven he had run away from New York City where his Irish immigrant parents had apprenticed him to a jeweler. He was not an s.o.b.-at least in his biographer's view-but he could cajole the widow and children of a Mexican landowner out of 15,500 acres of grasslands for $300, resell a half interest...
...HENRIETTA N. CARUTHERS Rellefonte...