Word: chetwynd
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Lillie Langtry was painted by Burne-Jones, Watts, Poynter, Millais (whose title "Jersey Lily" became her nickname). Langtry hats, shoes, gowns, coiffeur (knot at nape of neck) were standards of fashion. The Earl of Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwynd went fisticuffing for her sake in Hyde Park. Frederick Gebhardt, U. S. sportsman & socialite, built her a Manhattan mansion which still stands. Passing through a little Texas town, to which she had once been invited for the opening of a Lillie Langtry saloon, she was welcomed at the poker table, and the town was renamed Langtry...