Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the imperial cellars twelve bottles of ancient wine. Admiral Togo could not swallow, could scarcely speak, but he had not forgotten how to receive such honors. He had his ceremonial Japanese robes (the haori-hakama) spread over the end of his bed. For six years his wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles she rose painfully to take her place beside her husband's wooden bed in a little room bare of all decoration but a print of Mount Fuji...
Certainly fabulous is the history of Margaret, Countess of Holland who "in the year 1313 was brought to bed of 365 children at one and the same time...
Sued for Divorce. Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell, mathematician, philosopher; by his second wife, Dora Winifred. Countess Russell; in London...
...when he married Grace Wilson, daughter of a hard driving, onetime Tennessee storekeeper who made a fortune during the Civil War, married off his daughters to socialites. The total value of Mrs. Vanderbilt's was not revealed. She divided a $7,000,000 trust fund between her daughters Countess (Gladys) Széchényi and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, three grandsons and two granddaughters. "The Breakers," her famed home at Newport, and her town house in Manhattan also went to Countess Széchényi. A $150,000 legacy and funds remaining from the sale...
Separated. Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. (former Countess Marie-Anne-Paule-Ferdinandine-von-Wurmbrand-Stuppach of Austria); from Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; after a two-month marriage; in Manhattan. Reasons: undisclosed...