Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Countess of Oxford was a little girl she was solemnly introduced to the late great William Ewart Gladstone...
...first U. S. appearance, on the Manhattan stage in A Farewell to Arms (TIME, Oct. 6), her beauty was more noticeable than it is when photo- graphed. Universally praised by critics, she was immediately taken to Hollywood. Body and Soul is her first U. S. movie. Daughter of the Countess Zanardi-Landi, Actress Landi was born in Venice, edu-cated in England. She is now 26, has written two published novels, likes tennis, is billed as never drinking...
...divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through the aid of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith. When his second wife divorced him he married Elizabeth Mary Countess Arnim, anonymous authoress (Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April...
...March 1914 was the height of the suffraget agitation in Britain: ladies were chaining themselves to the railings of the Houses of Parliament, shouting themselves hoarse on street corners, smashing windows on Bond Street. Suffraget May Richardson had already distinguished herself by setting fire to the Countess of Carlisle's home at Hampton-on-Thames. Up to the Rokeby Venus walked she, suddenly produced a hatchet from her muff, slashed the picture across and across...
...Shanghai, China, big Sister Edda, Countess Ciano, is the wife of the Italian Consul General. In Milan, doughty Uncle Arnaldo Mussolini edits the family paper, Il Popolo d'ltalia. Also in Milan, little Sister Anna Maria teethes...