Word: presents
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...gave him Glamis Castle. Thence the House of Bowes-Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
Romans have thrilled to all manner of races-chariot races, horse races, automobile races, airplane races. But last week Romans saw their first whippet (dog) races. Six of the fleetest whippets raced were owned by the Contessa Dentice Di Frasso, once Miss Dorothy Taylor of Manhattan. Present were the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher...
...restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with an adroit blend of suavity and truculence...
...dictatorship of the Nationalist Party is proclaimed "during the present period of political tutelage"; but eventually elections will be held and the State transformed into a Republic...
...special type, often not successful elsewhere. Fay Compton is perhaps a Barrie actress but she has been cheered in many other sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then she was on her second husband, now she has her third. Her present U. S. appearance, while it pleased many, pleased, especially pleased, St. John Ervine, visiting London critic, who was reminded of his home town so happily that he wrote a glowing tribute to Fay Compton while he clawed Olympia and Author Molnar...