Word: leinster
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...Duchess of Leinster, onetime chorus girl, wife of the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland, was taken from a London flat to a hospital, suffering from asphyxiation, following a quarrel with one Stanley Williams, once a cook, with whom she had been living. Since 1923 His Grace has been separated from Her Grace...
President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
Alighting at Leinster House (Parliament), His Excellency soon stood respectfully in the presence of Free State Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy who solemnly administered the Governor General's oath of office in both English and Gaelic. Thereafter unassuming Governor & Mrs. Mc-Neill quietly took up their residence in Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the Vice-regal Lodge...
...Free State Government claims to have cleared the Rebels out of County Donegal by the capture of seven Republicans. ¶ The Republicans cut off the water supply in Maryborough, Leinster, Queens County, by blowing up the reservoir...