Word: marquisate
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Birthdays. George Bernard Shaw, 78; Col. Edward Mandell House, 76; Henry Ford, 71; Don Marquis, 56; Benito Mussolini, 51; Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 33.
When the Emperor learned that the 86-year-old hero could not live more than a day or two, he had him raised from a Count to a Marquis, sent him from the imperial cellars twelve bottles of ancient wine. Admiral Togo could not swallow, could scarcely speak, but he...
¶ A letter from the great parliamentarian Edmund Burke, indicating "grief, horror and disgust" at news of the French Revolution and surprise at the Marquis de La Fayette's failure to crush it.
Today, single-handed and in his own right, el gran Mirador controls some 10% of the world's tin output. Many times a millionaire, Simon Patino lives in a gaudy and fantastic palace in Paris. He warms himself at his villa in a forest of pine and mimosa above...
After a two-year fight, Comte Rene A. de Chambrun, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de Lafayette, was admitted to the New York State Bar. Lawyer de Chambrun, Paris-born, was banned from practicing his profession because he had never been naturalized as a U. S. citizen. To prove...