Word: astorisms
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...their Astor Street apartment for one evening and into the massive family mansion on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive moved Mr. & Mrs- Potter Palmer. Cleaned, redecorated, refurnished from warehouses, rehung with what paintings had not been given to galleries, the long-time citadel of Chicago society was open for the first time in two years for the debut of the Palmers' youngest daughter Pauline. That night 300 socialites rolled up to the carriage porch, hurried across the mosaic reception hall, danced in the highceilinged, velvet-paneled ballroom where the first Mrs. Palmer entertained King Edward VII, then Prince...
This question Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain left to one of his young men to answer in the negative. ¶ Observed with distaste efforts by Lady Astor, Conservative, to avoid having to give up her convenient aisle seat to Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who was propelled into it by the expansion of the Labor Party from 52 M.P.'s to 154 in the recent general election...
...Noble Lady seemed to think "Old George" a boor and intimated as much to his face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much...
...That was in 1907. Within two years he had won such esteem in the Department that he was sent to London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid was in very poor health. It was during that period that he married Caroline Astor Drayton. Mrs. Phillips is a descendant of the Draytons whose name means as much in the history of Charleston, S. C. as her husband's does in Boston. In 1912 at the ripe age of 34, William Phillips retired to become regent of the college and Secretary...
...experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, Ramsay MacDonald, Gordon Selfridge and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were all there together. Enthused the Daily Mail...