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Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 22, of the tobacco dynasty, and Priscilla St. George Duke, 18, married last January; a son. As the child was born, pretty Grandmother Mrs. George B. St. George, granddaughter of late Banker George F. Baker and first cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was romping to a blue ribbon on three-gaited Silver Fox in Manhattan's National Horse Show...
...fell for Susie's line of talk, and Susie fell for mine; Then we fell in with a parson, and he tied us tight as twine, But I wish, oh Lord! I fell overboard, On the old Fall River Line. One day last week the 426-ft. Priscilla, one of the matriarchs of the Fall River Line (water wheels and feathering buckets, double-inclined compound engine, 95-inch cylinders and eleven-foot stroke) moved with stateliness up New York's East River, as if ignoring the ignominious fact that she was being towed...
...Priscilla's crew had been conducting a sit-down strike in New York harbor and came ashore only when driven by hunger. In Fall River, the striking crew of the Commonwealth packed their kits, debarked with sombre faces. For not only was their strike ended but so, it seemed, was the Fall River Line...
...groups in Newport (port of call) and Fall River wailed that tourist trade and employment levels would be hit. But there seemed no way to force the company to continue in business against its will. Trustees of the railroad asked court permission to sell or scrap its nine vessels-Priscilla, Commonwealth, Providence, Plymouth, Chester W. Chapin, City of Lowell, Pequonnock, New Haven, Mohawk...
There was trouble at Rajpore, an army post on the Afghan border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith...