Word: astorisms
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...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...
...Lady Astor, Virginia-born M.P., whose outspokenness sometimes rivals that of her friend George Bernard Shaw, sometimes embarrasses her Virginia friends, blurted of Britain's Russian allies: "They are not fighting for us; they are fighting for themselves...
...glittering air of Colorado Springs, Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, 46, onetime husband of Barbara Hutton, married Mrs. Margaret Drayton, great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor herself...
That night she talked again of war as she went to a foodless and drinkless reception at the Astor. The ballroom was draped with the ancient provincial emblems of the Dutch. Some 4,000 friends of The Netherlands cried "Lang Leve de Koningin" as the Queen walked to her chair on a dais, stiffly waving her white-gloved hand. While everyone else stood up, the monarch remained seated in her chair, told her audience in Dutch: "When ultimately victory is ours and this terrible time belongs to the past, there will rest upon our shoulders the heavy duty of building...
...scolded: "You are a rude, scurrilous man." "Yes, I am," he replied, "but I'd rather make a living that way than by selling bonds." For years he needled Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt by calling her Mrs. Brigadier General Vanderbilt. Introduced to her unexpectedly one day by Vincent Astor, Paul stammered: "I'm not really the disreputable person you think I am, Mrs. Vanderbilt." Said Mrs. Vanderbilt gently: "From what you have been writing about me, I was under the impression that you thought I was the disreputable person...