Word: romanoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Mike Romanoff, alumnus of Princeton, Harvard, Oxford. Eaton, and several sister institutions, has disappointed his host of admirers. This lightning witted gent who rose from a New York orphanage and sundry reform schools to be lionized by social registries here and abroad has belied his career...
...Romanoff!" the policeman cried to a rapidly vanishing little man in skiing corduroys and horn-rimmed glasses. "Hey, Romanoff, come back here...
...little man stopped, faced the officer. "My name is not Romanoff," he said in lofty Oxonian. "It's Gerguson...
...station, Romanoff," the policeman insisted...
...officer did his duty. Thus last week, for the fourth time in ten years, Manager Ballinger, who first met Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson (alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) in Dunhill's London shop, had set the Law on his slick little customer. As of yore, Mike's craving for Royal Yacht pipe tobacco, at $10 per lb., had gotten him in trouble. He simply cannot keep a.way from Dunhill's and its fragrant mixture, which was first recommended to him, he claims, by his royal friend "David" (Prince of Wales...