Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COUNTESS FROM IOWA-Countess Nostitz-Putnam...
...King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) were prime examples of such oblique candor. Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting, much more guarded, offers little spur to the imagination...
...Beaton got his start with a cheap U. S. Kodak, still prefers it to the more "professional" cameras with expensive German lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker...
...newspapers with proletarian audiences screeched at Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow when the Paris-Midi reported that she had paid Singer Ganna Walska $1,200,000 for a collection of emeralds which Napoleon III once gave to his mistress, the Contessa di Castiglione. Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather...
...years "Tommy" Horder has been doctoring the British Royal Family. Among his other patients: Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, Actress Elisabeth Bergner, Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. Lord Horder's usual consultation fee is $25. He charged $5,000 to testify to the sanity of Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, eccentric millionairess who repeatedly has tried to help finance British air defense. His offices are in Harley Street...