Word: marquessate
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...less respectable episodes of Thomas Hardy's life. Hardyolators were indignant. Their indignation may be mollified by "A. Riposte's" riposte. A much more savage, more personal attack on Maugham than Maugham ever made on Hardy, the book would have been instantly disqualified by the late great Marquess of Queensberry, frowner on fouls...
...Speaker, if the noble Marquess thinks he is going to bully us with his high and mighty Cavendish ways, all I can tell him is he will find himself knocked into a cocked hat in a jiffy, and we will have to put him to the necessity of wiping the blood of all the Cavendishes from his noble nose a good many times before he disposes...
George Nathaniel Curzon, the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, father of obstreperous Lady Cynthia Mosley, was recalled last week by the unveiling of a monument to him in London on the sixth anniversary of his death...
...Kings, Two Queens. Adolf Hitler has no wife and only what money he can collect (German Magnaten have been generous). But Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, daughter of the late, great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, brings to her husband many of the golden millions left by her Jewish grandfather, Levi Zeigler Leiter of Chicago...
...wiseacres who were aware that most of his holdings were in stocks knocked down by the economic depression, particularly Imperial Chemical and International Nickel. The remaining estate will be divided among his family. The new Lord Melchett will inherit half the estate. Lady Erleigh, daughter-in-law of the Marquess of Reading, Great Britain's No. 1 Jew, is to receive Lord Melchett's property facing Lake Tiberias in Palestine...