Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although faced by the gray dawn of a national strike, the British public turned with interest to the publication of the will of the late Lord Curzon, Marquis of Kedleston.
The foppish little Marquis, who last year laid bare with nauseating crudeness the sordid story&$134; of how he won and lost Anna Gould, is non est at Paris and consequently nobody paid much attention to his vaporing.
Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
A foppish little Marquis. (P. 8, col. 3.)
Americana, wherein retiring Gloria Swanson presents her Marquis, and Lillian Gish (leading a Duell life) her George Jean.