Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valley. In the casket lay all that 89 years of life had left of Mrs. Vanderbilt, dowager of her family, who died last fortnight (TIME, April 30). Nearby in deep black stood her three surviving children, bearded Cornelius, long-faced Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), dark Gladys (Countess Szechenyi). Officiating with Dr. Brooks was Rt. Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, who once was rector of St. Thomas' and who is more in demand at the baptisms, marriages and funerals of the rich than Bishop Manning of New York...
East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth's court. Countess de Chambrun (Cincinnati-born sister of the late Nicholas Longworth) thinks the Dark Lady was Mistress Nan Davenant, wife of an Oxford innkeeper...
...Countess de Chambrun bases her romanticized tale of Shakespeare's career on "two score years of personal research," which includes a knowledge of the latest diggings among Shakespeare's bones. Perhaps Anne Hathaway really was the beautiful and understanding wife Author de Chambrun portrays: perhaps Shakespeare really was mixed up in Papist alarums and Essex' plot; perhaps he went to Scotland and had a fine clack with King James. But Author de Chambrun, though she is a bright lady and writes a conscientious romance, has not the vivifying touch. Readers will get more of an inkling about...