Word: shires
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...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...
...with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...
...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 how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud habit of bawling to British traffic policemen...
Died. John Campbell Gordon, 86, First Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, onetime Governor-General of Canada, twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; after a lingering illness; in Tarland, Aberdeen-shire, Scotland...
...gold-plated bronze. Its eyes were of ivory and onyx and lapis lazuli bows tied its braided mane. Baroque in muscle and violence, it was Sudbourne Premier, Britain's famed champion (1921-24). There was Haseltine's first champion job, King George V's own shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford bull champion, Twyford Fairy Boy, with grey-green...