Word: kent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec, police rounded up another youth with a homemade D.F.C. and shoulder insignia. He had been lecturing on his "experiences" before a Rotary Club. When arrested he was planning a broadcast about his latest flight of fancy: piloting the Duke of Kent to Canada...
...German professor wants to write a handbook called How To Take A Conquered Small Country Apart, he will find valuable source material in an article "I Saw Greece Looted" which the Nation published last week. It is by Ralph Kent, an American from Rome, N.Y. who was principal of Athens College. Mr. Kent reports that the Nazis stripped Greece of not only food, automobiles, bicycles and furniture, but carried off even doorknobs, locks & keys. Latest Nazi wrinkle: Mussolini sent 1,000 cases of milk to Greek babies who needed it desperately; ten cases were distributed, then the Nazis followed...
First member of British royalty to fly the Atlantic in a bomber, H.R.H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, 38, the youngest brother of King George VI, landed in Ottawa last week, where he was welcomed by the Earl of Athlone after a nine-hour hop in a four-engined, American-built Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Purpose: a six-week coast-to-coast tour inspecting the progress of the monster British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In the R.A.F., the Duke holds the rank of Air Commodore on the staff of the Inspector General...
Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta...
...Duke of Kent is expected soon to inspect the pilot-training setup in Canada. Meantime his Duchess ducked reviewing a detachment of WRENS in England. Announced trouble: a cold. Real trouble: a wasp bite under her beautiful right...