Word: marquise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
In Wales, Corgis have been bred for centuries as all-round farm dogs. Lately they have grown fashionable. Eight-year-old Princess Elizabeth has a Corgi which she airs in Hyde Park. At Cruft's show in London, world's biggest, almost 100 Corgis were benched. Two of...
A new Caesar was created in the Papal State last week, and unto him were rendered for six months the things which are Caesar's. Screamed headlines: DICTATOR NAMED FOR VATICAN CITY. In effect wise old Pius XI delegated all but the things which are God's in...
R. M. MARQUIS
Up the graceful "banjo'' drive to "The Hermitage" swept the President's car. He was led inside, had his attention called to the wallpaper given by Marquis de La Fayette, was seated at the head of Andrew Jackson's dining table for just the kind of...