Word: maud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thundered "Shame! Shame!" as Conservative M. P.'s charged that in Manchester a school inspector had reproved 12-year-old Maud Mason for "old fashioned imperialism" when she wrote on the occasion of His Majesty's Silver Jubilee: "England is only a small country but it is better than any other country because it has a good King and Queen to reign over...
...loyal M. P.'s flayed the Manchester school inspector, London's sensation-sheets made a heroine of Moppet Maud, who was rushed to the House of Commons and popped into the visitors' gallery to hear aristocratic Major Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education, report on her case...
Said Moppet Maud: "I feel funny sitting here...
Died. Prince Alexis Mdivani, 31, youngest of the three "marrying Mdivanis," onetime husband of Heiresses Louise Astor Van Alen and Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised...
...Lord Mayor came the Royal Family's processions, the Duke of York's two carriages, with "Baby Betty" and the newlywed Duchess of Kent rival attractions. As heir to the Throne, Edward of Wales drove out smartly with a cavalcade of Life Guards, his grave aunt, Queen Maud of Norway, at his side and opposite the Duke of Gloucester. As the grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side was Queen...