Word: countess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Count & Countess Szechenyi enjoy a Washington popularity second only to that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had a bad automobile accident, suffered the loss of his left eye. Light-hearted despite this, he still rides and drives his car, plays his "fair" game of golf. In Washington the Szechenyis take their social and diplomatic duties most seriously...
Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...
Within two hours after this prediction, Rosa Ponselle sang her "Casta Diva." The great house listened. The top galleries bulged with humble music-lovers. In the boxes were the Italian Ambassador, Mme. Melba, Prince & Princess Bismarck, Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, Lady Cunard, Lords Leesdale, Colebrooke and Monteagle, and onetime King Manuel of Portugal and his consort. . . . From top to bottom Covent Garden yielded itself to the spell of a glorious voice, forgot all traditions, burst into riotous applause. The third act brought another demonstration...
...speech finished, Prime Minister Baldwin grinned ingratiatingly, winced again and descended from the platform. Listening to the speech with eyes closed, a sour expression on her face, was long-nosed Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her moment came when the men were through speaking. The women of the audience crowded around her for a look, a possible smile, as they always do. She, as she always does, loved it, lingered long...