Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since joining the Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed...
Flames, spreading from one exploding fuel tank to another, licked rapidly upwards to the ship's luxurious superstructure. In the grand salon Guy Arnoux' lacquered panels of the Marquis de Lafayette winning the American Revolution cracked and sizzled. An Aubusson tapestry in the tea room, showing Washington'...
Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April 3, 1933; Oct. 4), $500.
But when Fools for Scandal was last week presented to U. S. cinemaudiences, Actor-Prince Mike's lowbrowed, pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French...
Barcelona had definitely become too hot at last for two grandees of Spain, the Marquis de Urquijo and the Duke of Saragossa, who found themselves in Madrid on the day the war began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front...