Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This little ditty, sung in At Home Abroad by Beatrice Lillie in 1935, might well have been sung in earnest by Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen any time before the Nazification of Austria. Besides having Kurt von Schuschnigg as fiance, she had as fancy a pair of slanting eyes and as sensitive a pair of musical ears as any blonde in the city. She was 33, a moderately gay divorcee, an intelligent conversationalist-and consequently popular...
...link Kurt un-comically with the execution in 1934 of a number of National Socialists who killed his boss, Engelbert Dollfuss. Meanwhile, still a closely-watched prisoner in his Belvedere Castle, Herr Schuschnigg was being permitted the comfort of daily visits from his blonde, 34-year-old fiancee, Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whose talent for fine music was Schuschnigg's solace following the death of his wife in a motor crash three years ago. But he has few other liberties. "How could we let Schuschnigg go free now?" reasoned solicitous Nazi officials. "He probably would not be able...
Left. By Alexis Zacharie Mdivani, late Georgian husband of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow; an estate valued at $2,985,908. In 1934 the Woolworth Countess established two trust funds for him totaling $2,251,189, few months later gave him securities worth $625,193. He was killed in 1935 in a motorcar accident in Spain. Under his will his two sisters and surviving brother (Brother Serge was killed in 1936 playing polo near Palm Beach) receive four-fifths, the Countess one-fifth...
...last week donned their cleanest white blouses, Scanderbeg jackets & white-pleated fustanellas, hopped on their scrawny donkeys and jogged over mountain trails to Tirana, their odorous turbulent capital. They came to celebrate the wedding of their 42-year-old King, Zog I, to a half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Mother and father of the Countess, who prefers her Budapest nickname of "Jerry," are the onetime Gladys Virginia Stewart of Manhattan and the late Count Anton Apponyi of Budapest...
...royal wedding on the third day went off without anyone taking a pot shot at the King. As muezzins wailed from the minarets, the tall, dark-haired Countess, dressed in a white satin gown, mounted a coach drawn by four prancing white stallions, a gift from the Hungarian Government, drove through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament...