Word: countess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blue serge suit, carrying a brief case, strode in. Next entered a slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, she claimed, had threatened her bodily harm...
Earlier in the spring, Countess Barbara sent Solicitor William M. Mitchell abroad to arrange a divorce, proceedings of which are now going on in Denmark. "My sum," the terms are Danish the child Count and was a quoted as fantastic said to Mr. Mitchell. The quoter bald, pink-cheeked Solicitor Mitchell himself, sole witness in the case to date. The child, as everyone knew, was two-Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, now a ward in Chancery. The "fantastic sum" later named by Solicitor Mitchell was $5,000,000, about one-eighth of the esti value of Countess Barbara's fortune...
Solicitor Mitchell said he had offered the Count $250,000 as a gesture-a "settlement for life." When the Count said $250,000 was "laughable and an insult," Solicitor Mitchell countered: "I wish somebody would insult me." Threatening to give the already much-publicized Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...London Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow swore out a warrant for her estranged husband's arrest, when & if he should set foot in England. Her charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that...