Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following this the Choral Society will sing two songs from Shakespeare--"Full Fathom Five" by John Ireland and "It was a Lover and His Lass" by H. Vaughan Williams; "Cherry Stones" by the Marquis of Bland ford; and "Follow Me Down to Carlow", an Irish folk song.
Two gentlemen of Manhattan who professed themselves friends of Marquis Macdonald agreed with his secretary that they do not know what he does, why he maintains an office at 149 Broadway where rents are high. Pressed, they termed him a "promoter," would not say of what.
But in Vatican City everyone above the rank of friar seems to know. Last Christmastide Pope Pius XI created Manhattan's Macdonald a Marquis. Came news last week of elaborate celebrations of his elevation to the Papal peerage.
First, Marquis Macdonald tendered a banquet to highest Papal dignitaries, at which New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes ate and drank.
Next a series of reciprocal feasts was tendered to Marquis Macdonald by Cardinal Gasparri (then Papal Secretary of State), Cardinal Sincero, Cardinal Cerretti and other Princes of the Church.