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Word: sessex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Restoration England. Vaporous Charles II, called to the throne from his nightshirt, wants to purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels are stolen. Clarendon grabs the throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Fol-De-Rol | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...Fogg Art Museum is a rare Rembrandt, "A Youth with a Black Cap and Long Curling Hair", which has been lent for a short period of exhibition by Sir Joseph Duveen, a well-known art connoisseur. The picture comes form the collection of Lord Leconfield, in Petworth, Sessex, and was exhibited in London, at the Royal Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE PORTRAIT BY REMBRANDT NOW ON EXHIBITION IN FOGG | 3/5/1930 | See Source »

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