Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"In the current number of the Saturday Evening Post there is a story about, the 'Marquis of Benham' who has an unmarried sister by the name of 'Lady Stanwick' and a daughter entitled 'the Honourable Alicia.' . . .
"If Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the...
A privilege of Greatness is to speak in words which send common folk ascurrying to dictionaries. Lustrum is such a word. Last week His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain announced:
The Duke of Almodovar and Count Cimera each addressed furious open letters, last week, to General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain.
Bitterly Duke and Count complained that their honor had been sullied by the Marquis. What did he mean, they asked in effect, by breaking off his engagement with the Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 18) and giving as his reason her "imprudent and inexplicable" conduct in appearing on the...