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Word: teck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King marry an American if he wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion of tiny Lord Beaverbrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...pylons designed by Canadian Sculptor Walter Allard and carved with the names of 12,000 Canadian dead. A rumor persisted that Queen Mary will also leave Britain for the first time since the War, pay a visit to Nazi Germany to see her girlhood home, the ducal castle of Teck in Württemberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crown's Week | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Duke of Clarence, died in 1892, Sailor Prince George had worked his way up to the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus. Reluctantly he left her to take up his duties as eventual heir to the throne, which included his marriage to the present Queen Mary (of Teck), his dead brother's fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Endearing Dragon | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first cousin, the Duchess of Teck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: May Queen | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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