Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare and beautiful woman was Madame la Comtesse Virginie Oldoïni Verasis-Castiglione, famed courtesan of the Second Empire who divided her best years between Piedmont's King Victor Emmanuel and France's Napoleon III. The Countess's costumes, her jewels and their donors provided half the talk at the Court in Paris. Artists fought to paint her. Sculptors modeled her hands, her fingers, her shapely legs, even her ears...
...grandfather at 46. In 1930, at 51, he married his third wife, Lelia Ponsonby. He has a taste for shawl-collared evening coats, a disdainful extravagance which causes him to use his footmen instead of the mails for messages to his friends. Lady Sibell, whose mother, the Countess of Beauchamp, is the Duke's sister, had opportunities to learn more about her gay uncle last year when she worked as receptionist in the London hairdressing establishment which the second Duchess of Westminster started after her divorce. What caused the Duke of Westminster's libel suit last week were...
King Rudolph of Langenstein Jack Edwards Donald McArthur, (American Actor) Guy Robertson Con Conley (His Press Agent) Andrew Tombes Queen Erna of Langenstein Nancy McCord Countess Putkammer Betty Starbuck...
Born. To Edda, Countess Ciano, daughter of Benito Mussolini, and Count Galeazzo Ciano, head of the Fascist press bureau (see col. 1), sometime Italian Minister to China: a daughter, their second child; in Rome. Grandfather Mussolini jubilantly canceled the day's engagements, rushed to his daughter's side...
Visiting nobility: Prince Charles of Sweden, Count & Countess Karolyi, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Count Folke Bernadotte, Prince Tokugawa of Japan...