Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First item of business was for the new Prime Minister to "advise" His Majesty to confer an earldom and a knighthood in the Order of the Garter on Mr. Baldwin, to create Mrs. Lucy Baldwin a Dame 'Grand Cross of the British Empire. The Earl and his Countess thus reaped the reward of their joint services to the country, could retire among their pigs in Worcestershire with the calm eye, the warm glow that bespeak the performance of hard work well-recompensed...
Engaged. Prince Carl of Sweden, 26, nephew of King Gustav V and brother-in-law of King Leopold III of Belgium; and Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, mother of three, divorced two years ago; in Stockholm. Since she is a commoner, the Prince had to renounce his titles and succession to the throne. Two of his cousins. Princes Sigvard and Lennart. have previously given up their royal rights to marry commoners...
Divorced. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 30, heir to the non-existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort...
Born. To British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 64, famed sex libertarian; and Countess Patricia Helen Spence Russell, 26, his third wife and onetime secretary; his second son; in London. She was named co-respondent in the divorce won by his second wife who had meantime had an illegitimate son by a journalist...
...style abhorrent to the father. He thwarts his son's ambitions to lead an orchestra and play the waltzes he fears may become more popular than his own. But he is in good turn himself thwarted in his machinations, by nothing less than the intrigues of a Russian countess who has faith in the young Strauss. It is through her wiles that the son supplants his father, who is happily reconciled to his fate...