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Word: leonora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour appeared before the Committee to prove his claim to the duchy of Somerset, disputed by Lord Hertford. The case has been hanging fire since 1923, when the 15th Duke died, and hinged upon the validity of a marriage contracted by Colonel Francis Seymour and Leonora Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duchy of Somerset | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

Married. Miss Leonora Hughes, 26, partner of Maurice (Mouvet), famed dancer in cabarets and night clubs* in the U. S. and Europe, to one Carlos Basualdo, Argentine millionaire; in Manhattan. Maurice is said to have sobbed, groaned, wept piteously during the ceremony, was mollified when his ex-partner wept with him, invited him to the wedding breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

Married. George Owen, Jr., 23, famed Harvard (1923) football, hockey, baseball athlete, to Miss Leonora Trafford of Milton, Mass. Owen has been called "the greatest athlete who ever wore the Crimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Engaged. George Owen, Jr., 23, generally acknowledged to be the greatest Harvard athlete of all time, to Miss Leonora Trafford of Readville, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1924 | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...BACK SEAT?G. B. Stern? Knopf ($2.00). Robert Carruthers occupied it?he was the little pig who stayed at home making ornamental shelves while Leonora, his wife, one of the brightest stars of the British stage, informed interviewers how sincerely she yearned for the simple, homey existence her public would never really allow her. But when she got her chance at true domesticity?and her daughter, Faith, as the result of Robert's mild engineering, made a howling success of a part supposedly written for Leonora?she found the back seat a little too hard for her temperament and returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Bow-Boy* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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