Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a thick black mustache and a high forehead, Broker Stetson is a civic-minded Philadelphia socialite whose pet hobby is raising fish. His mother, who became the Countess Santa Eulalia of Portugal after old John Stetson's death, added $4,000,000 to Son Stetson's hat fortune when she died in 1929. As a director of John B. Stetson Co., Broker Stetson has watched his father's business become one of the largest fine hat-makers in the U. S. It still makes ten gallon models, but the bulk of its $5,000,000 annual...
Motoring in Cannes, France, with her 2-year-old son Michael John was beauteous Atalanta Arlen (onetime Countess Atalanta Mercati), wife of Novelist Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian). A motorcyclist rammed into the rear of her automobile, was instantly killed. Forced to flee by a mob of Frenchwomen who cursed and threatened her, she was rescued by her husband and a British vice consul...
...Manhattan court Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) asked that his $400 weekly alimony payment to Aedita S. Fisher (onetime Countess de Beaumont) be cut to $100. He said that Depression had reduced the income from his comic strip from $52,000 per year to $26,000, forced him to sell his racing stable...
Expecting. Edda, Countess Ciano, 23, ''A-t" daughter of Benito Mussolini (Il Duce's rating-he has one other daughter, Anna Maria); and Count Galeazzo Ciano, 36, former Italian Minister to China: a child, their second; in November...
...Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that only Mrs. Trefusis had transformed herself with complete success into "Diamond Lil" (see cut}. ''Of course I have ideas...