Word: marquisate
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"Society itself appears to be dissolving," began a letter to William Candler, Coca Cola heir and proprietor of Atlanta's Hotel Biltmore. What Society needed, it went on, was a "directive class.'' Would Mr. Candler be the first to buy a title in the Nobility of the United States? Prices...
Wife & War. Dr. Carrel has determined, he declares in Man, the Unknown; that women should not make excessive sexual demands upon men of genius. He waited until he was 40 before he married Anne de la Motte de la Mairie, widow of the Marquis de la Mairie-a large, handsome...
Also a lawyer is José Laval's fiancé, almost forgotten last week in the dither over her dowry. He, aristocratic young Count René de Chambrun, is a nephew of the late, great Nicholas Longworth, a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Engaged, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval. 23, attractive only daughter of French Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun, 28. descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette, son of General Count Aldebert de Chambrun and the onetime Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Four centuries of bafflement over the expression Leonardo da Vinci put on a face in a picture the world has come to know as the Mona Lisa would be ended by a few facts about the fat-cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and...