Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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La, Huitieme Olympiade, to be held in Paris next year, will associate Arts and Sports with the Olympic Games. The French Executive Committee, under the Presidency of the Marquis de Polignac (well known in New York and Washington) is making arrangements for five international artistic competitions:
We warned Mr. Morley in our review of his last book--"Where the Blue Begins"; and in spite of the assertions of several of our literary friends to the contrary we still maintain it to be a masterpiece--we warned Mr. Morley to beware of too many "odds and ends...
As a young man he was engaged to Lady Florence Cecilia Paget. One day, as they were on a shopping tour, she walked out of the door, slipped into a cab that the Marquis of Hastings had ready, drove directly to church, married the Marquis. About three years later, at...
The Marquis Curzon: "In a speech in London I denounced the modern craze for digging up skulls and bones and declared that the antiquaries had gone mad. I protested especially against the excavation of a church yard at Gravesend where ' a lot of ghouls' are trying to find the body...
The "mummified body of John Wilkes Booth," assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is advertised in a professional theatrical publication as being " for lease." The man who wants to let it is named Bates, and his address is No. 1234 Harbert Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Startled by the threatened conflict between the Producing...