Word: countess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed in the annals of moral turpitude is the case of Vera, Countess Cathcart. In 1926 a U. S. District Court found that she had admitted committing what is regarded by most law as an act involving moral turpitude, namely adultery. U. S. law further states that a person making such an admission shall be refused admission to the U. S. But Countess Cathcart remained. Reason: The adultery was committed in South Africa, where adultery is no crime...
...taken the Trimmers along to help him out, but at that there was no car at the station to meet them, and the crowd on the platform did not seem to like the checked caps that he and his boy, now Viscount Perceval, wore. Also, the dowager Countess of Egmont was sitting in the home that had been hers for so many years and would, so reporters told Fred Perceval, refuse to move...
...next morning everything was arranged. The dowager Countess agreed to meet "those terrible Canadians." The new Earl drove to his castle in the village hack, midst exploding railway torpedoes set off by the tenants, and there at the castle door stood a mournful butler in livery with a little black box in his hand. Diffidently, Earl Fred took the little box from the butler, and the patient Trimmers sighed with relief. Their friend was officially installed Lord of the Manor...
...letters, which will be published by D. Appleton and Company in this country sometime next fall, represent one of the most curious and romantic episodes in history. They are addressed to two sisters, Anne, Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Bradford...
Lady of the Pavements (United Artists). D. W. Griffith's feeling for costume gives a certain conviction to the romantic story of a French count who finds his future wife, a countess, in the arms of another. He then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when...