Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>In Sofia His Majesty King Boris received Italian Minister Giuseppe Atenolfi, Marquis of Castelnuovo in a two-hour audience at his palace. That day rumor spread about the Balkans that Italy was now very much interested in forming an anti-Soviet Balkan peace bloc and that the Italians had just...
Died. Princess Louise, 91, Duchess of Argyll, great-aunt of King George VI, daughter of Queen Victoria, known as the "Royal Rebel" for her interest in art and for marrying a mere Marquis, later raised to Dukedom (first English Princess in 350 years to marry outside royalty); after long illness...
T. H. White's well-timed, wild dialogues are suggestive of the better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with...
When the men came into the ring, the odds were 3-1 on Nova. But what went on after the opening bell made mugs of many an expert-John Kieran, Hype Igoe, Jack Dempsey, Jim Braddock, Tommy Loughran. Not since the day of Elbows McFadden had fight fans seen such...
Other investigations-monopoly, petroleum, tax revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee'...