Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist, he has had to be a diplomat as well as an artist. The Countess Greffulh is almost unique among his subjects in that she considered his painting of her insufficiently lovely. Immensely popular with his patrons, Artist de Laszlo is somewhat less admired by artists, who doubtless envy him his income. He can console himself for the slights of his confreres by reflecting...
Perhaps because of the Depression there were fewer names than usual. Head of the list was His Majesty's strapping daughter, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, who in the words of the announcement "shall henceforth bear the style and title of Princess Royal...
Misers, Moratorium & Countess...
...Hungary similar restrictions on private currency exports preceded the "transfer moratorium," and remained in effect last week. To the scandal of all Budapest it was suddenly discovered that the Countess Bethlen, a socialite playwright and wife of former Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, was outside Hungary on a literary lecture tour. Furious Socialist Deputies demanded to know what "sinister influence" had procured the countess enough foreign money on which to travel? Or was she a criminal? Had she secret deposits abroad? What of the new Hungarian law obliging every citizen to put such deposits instantly at the disposal...
...Countess Bethlen is the Countess Bethlen, a law unto her smart, svelte self. She exchanges plot ideas with Statesman-playwright Benito Mussolini. When her plays are produced in Italy he goes to them, claps his hands, wires congratulations. Obviously the Countess Bethlen was earning the foreign money she spent last week by lecturing as she traveled. But amid money hysteria in Central Europe few heads were clear. To Hungarian Socialists the lecturing countess seemed a creature without shame, unpatriotic, diabolic...