Word: philippa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represents in decorous fashion the opening of the Royal Exchange by Queen Elizabeth. The Prince of Wales' card, rushed through after his return from South America, depicts the landing of that hardy wanderer, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, at Newfoundland in 1583. The Queen's card unexceptionably shows Queen Philippa, wife of Edward III, visiting the Cloth Hall at Norwich...
...Madeira Islands are dotted with sports recalling the life of Columbus. The world famous discoverer married Philippa, whose parents owned an estate in Porto Santo in the islands. Here Columbus lived many years. He made frequent trips to the leading city of the islands, Funchal, which furnished him with information from returning ships about the exploration and chartering of the new discovered or visited lands of the world...
...Mary, 24 ladies of the United States: Mrs. Ira Copley, Illinois; Mrs. Francis Clark, New York; Mrs. Edward Everett, Boston; Mrs. Charles Hamlin, Miss Hamlin, Washington; Mrs. Frederick Manning, daughter of Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court, New Haven; Mrs. Percy Morgan, Miss Kathleen Gelshannen, Miss Philippa Wendell, New York; Miss Mary Murray, Miss Helena Caperton, Virginia; Miss R. L. Abernathy; Kansas City; Mrs. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Philadelphia; Mrs. Harvey Norman, Washington; Mrs. W. L. Walter, Mrs. W. L. Rice, Miss Rice, New York; Miss Sylvia Lathrop, England, formerly of New York; Miss Rebecca Smith...