Word: marlboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Marlborough ("c/o Harold S. Vanderbilt...
...babbits, who attended the exhibit only because they had read news-stories which led them to expect, if not a touch of pornography, at least a large dose of sacrilege or obscenity, were baffled by the thoughtful bearded face of Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided...
...years since Dr. Grenfell, a Marlborough-and-Oxford youth who had amplified his medical interneship by cruising the North Sea healing fishermen struck across the Atlantic to take his surgery to the white fishermen and Eskimos of Labrador. He built hospitals, co-operative stores and native industries in many a cove and inlet of that grisly coast. The Indian Harbor Hospital, founded in 1894, is about 200 miles north of Battle Harbor, where Dr. Grenfell began his work two years earlier. The Marabel was to have assisted, from the Indian Harbor base, the coastwise dispensary service long rendered...
Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, 55, twice a baron, twice an earl, divorced husband of onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, owner of estates totaling 19,685 acres, exhibited last week toward the proposed reforms an attitude of flippancy...
...spite of mules and in spite of poor housing conditions, the doughboy must eat. "No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...