Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Manhattan from a European junket, James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, windy chairman of the Committee on America Self-Contained, announced that the nation's "most influential person" is now Countess Haugwitz (Barbara Hutton). Grumped he: "There's an expressionless young woman who inherited $50,000,000 and now rushes about gathering titles, good or bad, with the speed of an antelope. She does her country no good and spends her money abroad. The result is a strong tax-the-rich sentiment that we're all going to suffer from if we've piled up a little...
...Mary, Countess of Buccleuch, "at the time of her marriage . . . was but 11 years of age, and Mr. Scott 14. The affair made a considerable noise and became matter of discussion before the provincial Synod of Fife, in 1659. . . . The presbytery was, however, absolved, because the order was grounded upon an act of the General Assembly allowing such marriages in case of necessity for fear of rape...
...bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Solomon Litman, sat tearfully in a corner, nudged by her young son Syd who cried: "Momma, look!" when Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak arrived with the bride's sister Leonora ("Princess Gold"). Countess of Inchcape and the bride's grandmother, Lady Esher...
Died, Sir William Watson, 77, "dean" of English poets, longtime "neglected genius" who three times almost became Poet Laureate; after brief illness; in Sussex, England. Best known as a lyricist for his sonnets and elegies, Poet Watson derived his greatest fame from a lampoon of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, entitled: "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." Excerpt...
Separated. Edward F. Hutton, board chairman of General Foods Corp. and Zonite Products Corp., founder of E. F. Hutton & Co. (brokers), uncle of Countess (Barbara Hutton Mdivani) Haugwitz; and Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post (Postum). Reported settlement...