Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library exhibit, which will continue through February 20, consists largely of loans from Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr., '27, of Cincinnati, Ohio; S. J. Bolan, of New York City, dealer in Russian books; and Princess Xenia, of Russia, at present a resident of Syosset, Long Island, New York...
Such death would make 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth the Sovereign, and last week her father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth...
...ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol kept in touch by telephone from Bucharest where His Majesty's brother Prince Nicholas had come down with scarlet fever. At "Barley Thorpe," Oakham, Rutland-shire, England the sporting and highly self-appreciative Earl of Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing...
Hickingbotham Jr., onetime Rhodes Scholar; in Oakland, Calif. Married, Princess Alexandrine Louise Caroline Matilda Dagmar of Denmark, 22, niece of King Christian X; and Count Luitpold Alfred Frederic Charles zu Castell-Castell, 32, of Munich; in Copenhagen. Married. Francis Townsend Hunter, 42, oldtime U. S. Davis Cup tennist, Manhattan liquor dealer and co-promoter of the Fred Perry-Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tour; and Marjorie Franklin, 30, Manhattan dress-buyer; in Greenwich, Conn. Died, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan...
Arriving in Manhattan with his wife, the former Princess Nina Mdivani, Spiritualist Denis Conan Doyle confided to Manhattan newshawks that he was in constant communication with his late father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Said he: "My father has never failed to advise me on my personal and business relations. Not once since he died six years ago has he advised me wrong. The only time I did not follow his instructions I was nearly killed...