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Word: countess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner of the 1937 Cruft's in London last week was a Labrador retriever, Cheverells Ben of Banchory owned by Lorna, Countess Howe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Finest Dogs | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Belper by his first wife, the present Countess of Rosebery, at whose Town House the reception was held. Last year the Hon. Lavinia won the Nottingham Junior Lawn Tennis Championship, next broke her collar bone riding in a point-to-point race. Last week her father, Lord Belper, delighted the happy pair with a wedding present of a fine brood mare, but knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $50,000,000 and 45 cents | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle humor and skill that spectators are scarcely disturbed by the fact that all dialog is in German, necessitating brief English footnotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Democrats, constituted a major- ity in the House. . . ." ED. Achmet's Women Sirs: In my Jan. n copy of TIME I read your account of Achmet Zogu's efforts to marry into European nobility, and thought that perhaps you would be interested in knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation is not understood, owing to lack of knowledge regarding Albanian marriage laws and customs. I lived in Albania-in Tirana from 1926 to 1928-and Achmet's difficulties with Shefqut Bey Elbassani were common knowledge at that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...hops to California, then try to make it from San Francisco to Rome, nonstop. With him, just in case, will ride Major Attilio Biseo, personal pilot to Il Duce. . . . Pappa say no, no and NO the other day to keep Daughter Edda in town for the family weddings, but Countess Edda is her great big daddy's rock candy from way back, and last week she again reserved on the Conte di Savoia, sliding her into Manhattan on May 13, the day before Friday, heh, heh. . . . Pretty smart these Mussolinis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: On the Corso | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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