Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obituaries were taken mostly from Tellegen's confessions, Women Have Been Kind. Tellegen's wives were: 1) Countess Jeanne de Brockere; 2) Geraldine Farrar; 3) Isabelle Craven Dilworth (screen name: Nina Romano); 4) Actress Eve Casanova...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull, founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club, arrived from Elyria,Ohio, to perform her "favorite chore," that of "Hymen's assistant." Countess Eugenie Zicha of Prague had also arrived in Manhattan. So had Jacob Miller of Ontario and Theodore Kabelac of Philadelphia who eyed each other coldly, were united only in eagerness to meet the Countess. Fairly bubbling with excitement, roly-poly Mrs. Stull toddled about her hotel room to get the Countess and her two breathless suitors "properly introduced." After a study of their handwritings and an earnest consultation with...
...Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right." Stolid Mr. Miller tried to look at ease. It took the Countess only a jiffy to pick Mr. Kabelac...
...MAJESTY ELIZABETH - Marie Louise, Countess Larisch von Wallersee- Wittelsbach- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Another royal testimonial, this one about the late Empress of Austria...
...batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with great altars...