Word: illustriouses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If some high-flown and unblushing so-called debutantes camplain because their dutiful Harvard escort does not distinguish himself, or rather her, by his mode of attire, let them turn to the regula-illustrious Puritan ancestors:
Dignity, like the Imperial mantle which is placed upon England's King at his Coronation, clothed Edward VIII and his every act last week after the decision of His Majesty to abdicate and become not "Mr. Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of...
At a time when Harvard looms high in the attention and esteem of educational and cultural men and organizations, it is gratifying to note how far this aura of prestige and scholastic sanctity has pervaded. Not only in the hearts of the illustrious and great, but also in the bosoms...
General Justo must have been embarrassed. A few moments before, he had opened the Inter-American Peace Conference with many flattering references to "the illustrious President Roosevelt." The voice from the gallery, well he knew, was that of his own son, handsome Liborio Justo, who only recently had humiliated the...
The darling of British dowagers last week, because he had set an example to King Edward and become engaged to the right sort of girl, was England's Most Eligible Bachelor No. 2, the Duke of Norfolk. As Burke's Peerage says, "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand...