Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Duke's fiancee, Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, became at once a bonny, bouncing public favorite. High spirited, she slipped away from the dinner table at Drumlanrig Castle and turned on the radio full blast, startling her father the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry and his guests. Boomed...
Telling reporters afterward how she had turned on the radio, laughing Lady Alice cried: "Their surprise was so amusing! Only our families had known. The details of our romance must remain secret. But I can tell you that the Duke proposed to me three weeks ago and I accepted him...
Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage...
Last week this rebellious Japanese lady, in the story of her life, seemed to look back upon her own varied activities with a mildly gratified air of astonishment, offered a book at once quaint and informative, packed with matter-of-fact political and social data and naïve little...
The bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Solomon Litman, sat tearfully in a corner, nudged by her young son Syd who cried: "Momma, look!" when Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak arrived with the bride's sister Leonora ("Princess Gold"). Countess of Inchcape and the bride's grandmother, Lady...