Word: noblemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generous charitarian, particularly towards children. Yet for all the model, industrious life he led, his years were troubled by the vagaries of the many persons in whose veins flowed the blood of his famed father. His brothers and sisters, save for Helen, all insisted on marrying actresses or noblemen -generally more than once. His sister Anna divorced Count Boni de Castellane and married the Due de Talleyrand. His brother Howard (now living abroad) married Actress Viola Kathrine Clemmons...
...told that unless we can make peace with these noblemen, [their] candidates are to be run [against Conservatives] all over the country. A challenge has been issued to us. We are told the gloves are off! If they are, we shall see who has got dirty hands...
Setting was simple; the solemnly stalking constables and the noblemen of Messina appeared before the same Palladian arch, altered to suit the needs of the scene; but the bright costumes of the players varied to fit the varied brilliance of the speech and the acting...
...corner as though in sympathy with the outstretched left arm. Nedo Nadi is the son of Beppe Nadi, who coached every great Italian fencer since Italy became a united kingdom (1868) until recent years. At Beppe Nadi's Fencing Academy at Leghorn before the War gathered many adolescent noblemen later killed on battlefields where a steel blade was not of much use. Nedo Nadi began to fence when he was 7. When he was 13 he won the fencing tournament held in Vienna as part of the Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee. When...
...Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer there was taken to the nearest town and hanged. William and his successors rode through New Forest after stags and boars. Herds of pigs grew fat in the forest on truffles and mast; their carcasses helped...