Word: shires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputation as a sculptor spread, he was commissioned by Edward VII to do the King's mount, Kildare. Then Queen Alexandra introduced him to her barouche horse, Splendor, George V sent around his great Shire stallion, Field Marshal V, and the young gentleman's career was assured. Later, in the U.S., he met and molded for bronze the late Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand, George Widener's Eight Thirty, Jock Whitney's Royal Minstrel, Marshall Field's Stimulus, Sir Galahad Third ("You wouldn't turn around to look at Galahad...
Five hundred gentry from all over the isle came last week to the sandstone-walled Shire Hall of Warwick to revive an institution and toast the fox-hunting season. It was England's first Hunt Club Ball since...
...wards the Cavendishes and the Kennedys kept their counsel. But the day before the wedding Kathleen's mother, ill in a Boston hospital, sent out word that she was "too sick to discuss the marriage." If Lord Hartington succeeds to the title, becomes the 11th Duke of Devon shire, his Duchess will find herself the Mistress of the Royal Robes, first lady In waiting to the Queen. The Queen may well be Princess Elizabeth...