Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was a coy smile on the face of New York's Tammany tiger for on its back sat a fair colleen named Winifred C. O'Leary...
...Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George V was at this time vainly trying to get Edward of Wales to settle down by marrying, but, although Lady Elizabeth was mentioned prominently, it was not "David" (the future Edward VIII) but "Bertie," then Duke of York, who presently came to Glamis and did his best to propose during his visit. The Duke, acutely conscious of his speech impediment but also tremendously in love, went for a ride with Lady Elizabeth on the day scheduled for his departure, finally tore a leaf from his notebook in desperation...
...Lizzie." Two days after their splendrous marriage at Westminster Abbey in 1923 the Duchess of York, still technically a "commoner" was made a Royal Princess with the rank of H.R.H. by approving George V. She asked her friends to keep on calling her "Lizzie...
Next year the Duke was assigned to go to Australia and open its new Parliament with a Speech from the Throne, for him a terrible ordeal. "Well, here goes," York was heard to say to his wife as, gritting his teeth, he arose to speak. "I know you can do it," she replied firmly and Australians were struck by the way in which the Duchess followed every word, nodding and smiling encouragement right through to the Duke's successful close which brought a torrent of cheers...
...years which followed Britain began to see in the devoted domesticity of the Yorks what finally was found so glaringly lacking in Edward of Wales. "She is one of us!" became what everyone said of Elizabeth, "the Smiling Duchess." Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there...