Word: marquisate
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At so grave an hour the young bachelor who may some day choose to call himself "King David"* might properly have pondered what his future is to be. Not much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last...
Lady Anne is convalescing from pneumonia. Reports of her illness and recovery are known to have been cabled in code to Edward of Wales throughout the course of his Afric Good Will Tour (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). Naturally the Marquis Douro continued, last week, his refusal either to confirm...
And last week, when Dr. Allen Johnson published the first volume of the Dictionary of American Biography, he was feted, dined by luminaries of worlds educational, literary, journalistic. It was inescapable that when Sir Leslie published his biographical dictionary he should be compared to Samuel Johnson. Friends found the same...
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA (1928-29)? A. N. Marquis Co. ($8.50).
The Marquis spoke of the Novedades Theatre in Madrid, how suddenly flames had whipped from the stage to the house, how the theatre had burned, children perished, and panicky men had stabbed. There were nearly 100 dead, the Marquis said, and more than 200 in hospitals.