Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Countess of Harewood...
Divorce Denied. To Lady Vera Hodge, onetime Countess of Cathcart, heroine of the uproarious "moral turpitude" incident in 1926:* from Sir Rowland Hodge, 75, Tyneside shipping tycoon; in London. Lady Hodge's charge: misconduct. Reason for denial: insufficient evidence...
Divorced- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME...
Without such preliminary advantages, Bertrand and Dora Russell tried hard to apply their creed to their own lives. Even when the London Times last year announced the birth of a child to Countess Russell and a journalist named Griffin Barry, her philosophic husband took it almost as a matter of course. But behind even the most determinedly modern thought lie old-fashioned impulses ingrained by generations of social custom, Last spring Countess Russell filed suit for divorce, charging adultery. The Earl did not contest the action of his onetime partner in sex education...
Soon snagged were the proceedings on a curious clause in a deed of separation which the Russells had signed in 1932. Entitled "Rose v. a Rose," it contained mutual forgiveness for all marital infidelities up to Dec. 31, 1932. Countess Russell charged her husband with adultery in 1933. "This mutual condonation prevents any inquiry into my adultery," said she, "which I admit because my husband condoned...