Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks like a Lord and generally feels like one. He rides in a Rolls-Royce, owns a big house in Toronto, another in England, a third at Palm Beach. His wife, the former Anna Perkins Slade, daughter of onetime Harvard Professor Daniel Denison Slade, is a niece of Countess Edla of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. He likes to tell how a British secret service agent whisked them out of Germany on a diplomatic train...
...married the town clerk's daughter, went to war, lost a leg. At 24 he inherited the title when his father drowned. Soon afterwards he eloped with the wife of Earl Cathcart. After several years of travel, they visited the U. S. The Earl of Craven was admitted, Countess Cathcart barred on the ground of "moral turpitude...
...castle on the wedding day of Head Butler Paul Lukas and the Baroness' personal maid Virginia Bruce, comes John Gilbert, highly recommended by the apprehensive countess whose chauffeur he has been. He watches the butler take his bride to his room. The upstairs buzzer sounds. Says the butler: "Don't worry, my darling Anna. My father was a butler, and he had nine children." As he leaves John Gilbert quickly and smoothly appears. He tells a sentimental story of his? mother's wedding night. Presently he is also fast friends with the butler and with the cook to whom...
...mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked by the town banker. She asks him to draw up a codicil to her will, leaving the girl an imaginary fortune. That fixes that. She finds the other daughter in love with a lurking gangster. She tries to fix that...
Lady Charles Cavendish, long famed as U S. Dancer Adele Astaire, was to have been presented by her new mother-in-law, the Duchess of Devonshire. Pleading acute rheumatism, the Duchess stayed at home. Lady Cavendish was presented by Mabell, Countess of Airlie...