Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed, the Bondfield Bill would mean doling out a total of $610,000,000 next year, equivalent to $13 for everyone in the British Isles...
...with women is peculiar. He was cited as co-respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London. He once fought a duel over a horse, refused to fight another duel with Jeweler Cartier for a fancied insult. He was sued last year for accidentally peppering a fellow grouse-shooter with birdshot...
Everyone knows how in less than a year Gigolo Subkoff ran through Princess Victoria's $3,000,000 fortune, squandered it on wenches, motors and champagne while she adoringly forgave. Little known in the U. S. are Subkoff's memoirs: Ma Vie et Mes Amours, printed recently at Paris. He writes with surprising decency?for a gigolo?of Princess Victoria, explains as delicately as possible how a youth of 27 can fall in love with a widow...
Expelled from Germany last year as an "undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...
...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...