Word: marquisate
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Died. Albert Nelson Marquis, 88, founder, longtime editor and 23 lines of Who's Who, after a brief illness; in Evanston, Ill. In 1899 Marquis issued his first edition, with 8,602 names. It sold 4,000 copies. The last (22nd) edition contained 31,692 names, sold over 60...
Constance Bennett, wide-eyed prom queen of the jazz age, gold-plated honey of the cinema since 1924's Cytherea, scored heavily in her role as a mother. Now 38, she won for her 14-year-old son, Peter Bennett Plant, a $150,000 cut of the estate left...
When Chief Justice Sir Oscar Daly finished his summation and the jury retired, Freddy had his chauffeur park his car beside the courthouse. But he managed to look solemn when the twelve brought in their verdict, vastly relieved when the words "not guilty" unlocked the mahogany cage for the last...
The job will be big and difficult. To fill it Churchill named popular Lord Woolton, Minister of Food since April 1940. Woolton had proved himself an adroit administrator, a skillful user of press, radio, cinema to keep the public informed. Born Frederick James Marquis in Manchester 60 years ago, Lord...
Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives...