Word: marquisate
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Straightway Londoners gave vent to their feelings through the national safety valve, "a letter to The Times." Roundly they berated the noted sculptor, C. S. Jagger, for having produced "a monument which will be interpreted as a glorification of war." Sir Ian Hamilton, onetime (1901-02) Chief-of-Staff to...
Once, with the Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him...
Next month Italian and Egyptian delegations will be taken on a yacht belonging to the Italian Navy to a point off the African coast opposite the Oasis of Jarabub. Gazing toward the Oasis from the shiny deck, the Marquis Negrotto Dicambiaso for Italy and Sidik Pasha for Egypt will determine...
"Years ago, during the Russo-Japanese War, I had a most pleasant acquaintanceship with Baron Kentaro Kaneko, now a Marquis. I was able to be of service to him, and Mrs. MacVeagh was helpful in managing a pageant for the benefit of Japanese children made fatherless through the War.
† Marquis de Chambrun, descendant of Lafayette, born at Washington, D. C., married to a U. S. girl. He and other descendants of Lafayette are U. S. citizens by act of Congress. His brother Jacques is now a General in the French army in Morocco. His brother Charles is French...