Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incognito as "the Countess & Count von Sternberg," they had brought 21 pieces of luggage including two gramophones, six pairs of skis. Their Royal Highnesses publicly drank whiskey & soda at teatime, insisted on Polish dishes (item: hare in cream with beets) in the dining room. While Bridegroom Bernhard ski-jored behind a sleigh, Bride Juliana skied on a practice slope before a trainer and 47 cameramen, good-naturedly taking frequent spills and crying the only two Polish words she had learned: "Don't photograph!" Considering how ably the world press can hound romantic couples when it wants to, world press...
...broker some months ago showed His Majesty an extremely complete set of pictures giving King Zog a good idea of some few dozen European titled women all primed to become his Queen. The 41-year-old King liked best the pictures of 19-year-old Countess Johanna von Mikes, a Hungarian. The Portuguese broker chartered an airplane, retained the services of two chaperons and flew Countess Johanna to Tirana just in time for King Zog to have her for Christmas...
...Budapest knew last week, the young Countess had proved satisfactory. Then suddenly she returned by air and Albanian Court officials announced that no marriage will happen. "I cannot yet speak," said Countess Johanna von Mikes, "but, officially, nothing has happened." The family of the Countess face-savingly announced that she could not marry King Zog because, as a good Catholic, she could not possibly join His Majesty in the Mohammedan faith...
...children by Caesarean section, preserves her bosom with applications of icewater and camphor, cheats on her husband and lands in Reno. About half the more prominent members of The Women's, dramatis personae land there with her in Act II. There they meet an indelible character named the Countess de Lage (Margaret Douglass). The Countess has married three fortune-hunters and a Reno cowhand, and she still puts her faith in "l'Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds in sending home the youngest of the Women (Adrienne Marsden) without...
...House of Commons, tripping over the extended feet of Mr. Eden, to unseal his lips in a tacit admission that the King does not demand that Mrs. Simpson be his Queen but only insists upon contracting a morganatic marriage and giving her one of his lesser titles such as Countess of Chester. "The only possible way," Mr. Baldwin tells the House of Commons, "would be by legislation dealing with a particular case. His Majesty's Government are NOT prepared to introduce such legislation! Moreover, the matters to be dealt with are a common concern to the Commonwealth [Dominions, India...