Word: astor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman largely responsible for Virginia's new roads is another exemplar of the way politics can keep its breeding, and again Lady Astor's remark was a neat compliment. The road-builder was her host and distant relative, Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia...
...Lady Astor, who used to be Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, came over from England for the occasion. There was more than social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years...
...reason the Astor-Smith relation seemed so strange was, of course, that Politics and Society have long been divorced in the U. S. It is not yet so in England, nor in Virginia. Although she says "Amer-r-rican" like a dowager duchess, Lady Astor was every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke...
...benefactor with a nice mixture of thanks, congratulations and vivacity; she suggested one change in the plans, which Mr. Rockefeller promptly adopted. She hoped she would see him at the Governor's Ball. But some other necessity in his vast philanthropic domain recalled Mr. Rockefeller to New York. Lady Astor moved on through the State, marvelling that she had never seen that section of it before. Richmond, where she used to live, is only 40 miles from Williamsburg. But, she explained, "there were no roads in those days...
...Lady Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Mirador, Grenwood, Va.), member of the British Parliament, arrived on the Aquitania with 27 pieces of baggage, a diamond tiara and a daughter (Phyllis). They were met at the pier by Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They are to attend the great ball given by Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. For reporters, Lady Astor had some of her customary quixotic generalities: "I am a wily old politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That...