Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winston Churchill, both members of the 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...
Despite antigambling sentiment in English parishes, the former Prince of Wales and later Edward VIII liked to try his chance at baccarat or roulette in Europe's public casinos. Last week in Monte Carlo's swank International Sporting Club the Duke of Windsor laid his stakes as a modest punter at baccarat, never cried "Banco!" Other punters, with traditional gambler superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening...
...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, Nov. 30, 1936, et seq.). The doll, instructed the Duchess, is not to be raffled off for charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh miner. "Will the little mother of this doll," wrote Last Year...
...Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared to the spectacular humanism radiating from the White House. During much of the short reign of Edward VIII those British subjects who admired what they considered His Majesty's spectacular humanism saw in this spirit something their whole kingdom should copy from the United States. During 1937, with Britain's Constitutional Crisis irrevocably and popularly settled, the broad revulsion of Britons has carried them back...
...from the novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes; produced and acted by Miss Skinner). Given 30 seconds to change her costume, makeup and wig, Cornelia Otis Skinner can be all things to all men. In the past she has specialized in monologues and short solo-dramas (The Wives of Henry VIII; The Loves of Charles II). Now she appears in her first full-length play. As usual, she is singlehanded...