Word: maud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dorothy Maud, Countess Haig, 60, widow of the late plodding Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary P'orce during World War I; in Glyn Bangor, North Wales. In The Man I Knew, she warmly defended her much-criticized husband after his death...
...MAUD-Edited by Richard Lee Strouf-Macmillan ($3.50). The Journal of Maud Rittenhouse, beginning in 1881 when she was the smartest and (nearly) the prettiest girl in high school in Cairo, Ill. What Maud confided to her leather-bound journal during the next 14 years makes as fascinating reading as was ever found in an attic...
Died. The four favorite saddle horses of the late British-born Queen Maud of Norway; destroyed (according to her wish, because she could not bear to think of them passing into other hands); at her English home in Sandringham...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...Died. Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria, Queen of Norway, 69, sister of Great Britain's late King George V, last surviving child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...