Word: xenia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Star fleet, with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William B. Leeds" gave rise to confusion and that "Princess Xenia" was of doubtful legality, the judge granted her permission to drop her title, revert to her family name...
...trains. When they retired with enormous promoting profits, they carried the same methods into their glittering social life. "Tin Plate" Leeds paid his first wife $1,000,000 for a divorce. His widow managed to wed Prince Christopher of Greece and his son married and was divorced by Princess Xenia of Russia.* Judge Moore's two prides were a stable of 70 horses and a $19,000 fur coat, most expensive garment ever worn by a U. S. male. Czar Reid specialized in parties. Their companies (which also included Diamond Match and National Biscuit) waxed great but under less...
Luckily Alexander still had his collection of antique coins; he sold them. His wife Xenia sold her pearls. The late notorious Alfred Lowenstein offered him $2,000 a week to act as social decoy...
Dairymen on the Didsbury Jersey farms at Didsbury, Alberta, last week argued that it was a meat diet which caused one of their cows, Waikiki Xenia's Fanny, to produce almost pure cream...
...exiles are supported by the sale of their family jewels. As supplies run low, however, it is then found that some mysterious benefactor is secretly placing large denomination bills in Xenia's purse. The question of the identity of the anonymous philanthropist and the truly Parisian romance that follows bring the play to its final climax...