Word: marlboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the year 1932 that omniscient but intentionally delayed Vatican publication, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (Acts of the Apostolic See) may be expected to publish a full report of a decree of annulment* between the Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, news of which leaked out through profane channels last week...
...until the great Dukes of Marlborough and Portland incorporated their estates recently, did the peerage consider this practice purged of all ignoble taint. Since then estate incorporations have become decorously numerous...
...mine owner let it lie negligently for a moment beside his plate. Perhaps it might contain a new outburst against the miners by half bald and otherwise red-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill. There was no sentimentality about "Winnie"-a grandson of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough. A little loud, perhaps, but "Winnie" would keep the Cabinet on the coal owners' side while Premier Baldwin was away...
...sovereigns upon their accession (1910). As a matter of record, the late Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra (TIME, Nov. 30) clung so tenaciously to what she deemed her ipso facto rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born to reign if ever mortal was-that she should abandon Sandringham to a king-emperor who was, after all, her son. Filially meek, George V and his consort were content...
Married. Elizabeth White, 35, daughter of Judge John J. White, president of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel Co. in Atlantic City, to Dr. Daniel J. McCarthy, 51, neurologist and alienist. The bride presented 700 hotel employes with $10 gold pieces, dined them...