Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Privy Council of King George VI, called and paid their respects to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Just before the Windsors returned this week to Paris, oldtime Actress Maxine Elliot (who two years ago rented her Hollywoodesque villa at Cannes to King Edward VIII for a holiday with Mrs. Simpson) entertained at dinner Privy Councilors Lloyd George & Churchill and the Duke & Duchess...
Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson was Woman of 1936, but the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with the assistance of Herr Hitler and Mr. Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME...
This issue of the "Harvard Monthly" springs so directly from the flames of earlier days that it might well be called the Phoenix Number. It is made up entirely of reprinted writings by former editors and contributors from George Santayana to Ernest A. Simpson. When another former editor, of so antique a date as the third year of the "Monthly's" infancy (1887-88), turns its pages he must resist the temptation to drop into an "in my day" mood--and so he does...
Married. Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, to Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower; in Manhattan's City Court; Raffray's former wife last month married Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, whose former wife six months ago married the Duke of Windsor...
Result: The six people now bearing the names Raffray, Simpson and Windsor have married and intermarried 13 times and only one of them-the Duke of Windsor-has not been divorced...