Word: wellington
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...Washington, Madame Wellington Koo, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., paid an income-tax lien claim of $1,278 on some overlooked stocks & bonds income. It was not the money but the implication that bothered her, she said: "It was less than what a dress costs. But now with all the tax scandals . . . people think it must have been over a hundred thousand dollars...
...stood in Spain and surveyed the ragged levies sent him for his Peninsular campaign against the French. "I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy," said the man who was to go down in history as the Duke of Wellington, "but, by God, they frighten...
...these times of paucity of respect for the past, let us not tamper with the grassy slopes that extend out toward the crass commercialism of Slough . . . If the first Duke of Wellington did not say this in so many words, then one of his post-cedents should have. HARRY HESS New York City...
...seventh Duke of Wellington denies the validity of the Eton-Waterloo epigrammatic statement attributed to his famous ancestor and is willing to spend his money to prove his point, what might he not be willing to do in the case of the story which is quoted from the Irish Digest...
...Duke of Wellington, when he was very old and incredibly distinguished, was telling how once, at mess in the Peninsula, his servant had opened a bottle of port, and inside found...