Word: keppel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were to be found there: the great hostesses such as Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Keppel, Lady Cunard; the new beauties, including Lady Diana Manners; the first open roadsters (in other years only "the fastest of fast actresses" would have gone driving alone with a young man); the first dazzling London seasons of Diaghilev's Russian ballet...
Died. Alice Frederica Edmondstone Keppel, eightyish, last of the late Edward VII's girl friends after long illness; in Florence, Italy. Mrs. Keppel settled easily into the pleasure-loving royal household; no objections were heard from either the Hon. George Keppel (third son of the Earl of Albemarle) or Queen Alexandra, who at the end graciously asked Alice to sit by Edward's deathbed...
...estimated 1645 undergraduates will spend this summer basking in the warmth of a Harvard education, Francis Keppel '38, assistant to the Provest, said yesterday as he tabulated December study cards and new February registrations of students who had declared this intention...
...addition to this number, there will probably he upwards of 400 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a contribution "in the low hundreds" from Radcliffe. A final handful of men will undoubtedly return from leave of absence in June to continue their studies, Keppel added...
...same time that he released these figures, Keppel also noted that the final College registration total for this term had reached...