Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an almost vengeful relentlessness he continues to harry Edward, forbidding him to live here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught to believe that the virtue of the English is their sense of fairness and good humor and their reluctance to hurt a man when he is down...
...constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." Last November fiery, wild-eyed, Manhattan-born Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Free State, bit these words off as distracted Britain stood on the brink of the Edward-Simpson crisis...
Awarded. To Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 40; a decree absolute of divorce from her second husband, Ernest Aldrich Simpson; in London. In Salzburg, Austria the Duke of Windsor hustled aboard a train to join her at Monts, France...
...Simpson: "For Queen of England [King Edward had chosen], an itinerant, shopsoiled twice divorcee with two ex-husbands living. . . . She came too far below, she clashed too crudely, with the nation's idea and ideal, dream and myth of feminine royalty. . . . She would not do. The comedown from Queen Mary to Queen Wally was too steep...
...lineup will be--forwards, Knapp, Clowes, Whitney, Scott, Gephart, Trench, Harkness, and Williams; scrum half, Cockins; stand off half, Channing; inside three quarters, Waldinger, and Desmond; wing three quarters, Watt, and Simpson; fullback, Waters...