Word: kents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Grand Rapids cackled with delight as its 123rd semi-annual market opened. On display for the first time was a brand-new furniture style, designed to "perpetuate Grand Rapids' reputation as the furniture capital of America." Grand Rapids (of Kent County, Michigan) named it Kentwood...
...home in London as much as in Belgrade, Prince Paul and his beautiful Grecian-born wife, Princess Olga, occupied the "Belgian suite" of Buckingham Palace. Greeted by his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...Kent Bartlett and his orchestra will provide the music for the Kirkland House Christmas Dance on December 9. Dancing will be from 8 until 12 o'clock. Thomas F. Gladwin '39 is chairman of the Dance Committee and Elliott H. Phillips '40 will be head usher. The other ushers are: Joseph Frank '39, John '40, Neil Rawlinson 3G, and Francis M. Simpson...
...British newspapers noted the meeting in a few stilted lines but gossipy U. S. newsorgans speculated that the Duke & Duchess of Windsor would be invited home for the traditional royal Christmas season at Sandringham, that the Duke might soon be given a job abroad such as the Duke of Kent was given, that the pleased Windsors had promised to abandon plans for a U. S. trip until 1940 so as not to provide an embarrassment to the King & Queen's visit next spring...