Word: duke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strangers are ordered to withdraw!" cried Mr. Speaker Capt. the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy and out trooped the press, the official stenographers who ordinarily record the minutes of all sessions, and everyone in the galleries except the peers, who included His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. On the floor of the grossly overcrowded House, which has seats for only 476 of its 615 members, scores of M.P.s squatted tailor-fashion. To eat during the secret session, which lasted more than seven hours, many had bought for sixpence each what were offered in the refreshment rooms as "Secret Sandwiches...
...Greek beach with a cliff on one side and the sea on the other, was held by Spartan King Leonidas' Army of 300 in 480 B. C. against Xerxes' large Persian forces. Valmy in Northeastern France, was held by French Revolutionary Armies in 1792 against the Duke of Brunswick's German forces...
...Duke of Windsor, when Prince of Wales, scandalized the English by appearing, in women's clothes, in a piece called The Bathroom Door...
Orange Bowl at Miami-Georgia Tech (beaten only by Notre Dame and Duke) v. Missouri (beaten only by Ohio State...
Cotton Bowl at Dallas-Clemson College, co-champion with Duke in the Southern Conference, v. Boston College...