Word: marquisate
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Crossing the river on a moonless night, the British army of about 4,800 was in position before the city at dawn. Had the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, waited for reinforcements, he might still have won. But he ordered the regiments available (some 4,000 men) to charge...
The elegant. U.S.-born widow of Spain's auto-racing Marquis Alfonso de Portago came close to meeting death on wheels, as did the marquis in Italy's exhausting Mille Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's...
Count Your Blessings (M-G-M). A vague young Englishman (Tom Helmore), known to his friends as "a bit of a clot," has a parting word for the suave Marquis de Valhubert (Rossano Brazzi), who is flying off for a London leave during World War II. "Look up old Grace...
When Ulysses comes home at last, his Penelope is so stunned at the sight of him that she can only shake his hand and stutter civilities. "Was Dienbienphu awful?" "Yes. Toward the end of the siege we ran out of wine." "That must have been awful." "Yes." A honeymoon breaks...
*Wilde for suing the Marquis of Queensberry for libel when he referred (accurately) to the poet's homosexuality; Schiller by the Duke of Württemberg after the stir caused by his social criticism in The Robbers.