Word: marquess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocker came from the League's own President of the Governing Commission of the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany...
While the Ruttledge expedition was struggling on the north face of Everest, the Marquess of Clydesdale and Flight Lieutenant D. F. Mclntyre took off in specially built planes with supercharged motors from Purnea, near the Nepal border, and flew a scant 100 ft. over the mountain from the south. In three hours they were back in Purnea (TIME, April...
Fortnight ago Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald announced the imminence of huge additions to His Majesty's Navy (TIME, July 2). Last week Air Secretary the Marquess of Londonderry told the House of Commons that Britain must double her air force...
...marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title...
That Delphic tip by the devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...