Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your father's health and mine are much discussed nowadays," said Pope, Pius XI last week to Edda, Countess Ciano (née Mussolini...
...during socialite functions. Garden parties are his forte. He made off with a Van Dyck-Feddinand the Cardinal-while guests of Lord Clarendon gossiped over their cups on the lawn. At the Earl of Minto's home, besides the Reynolds, he helped himself to $100.000 worth of the Countess of Minto's jewels...
Elizabeth, Duchess of York, who was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,* third and youngest daughter of the Earl & Countess of Strathmore and Kingshorne, lay in turreted Glamis castle last week, where according to tradition and Shakespeare, MacBeth did murder Duncan to become King of Scotland. All Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain...
...knowledge of daily publishing, she is well-posted on the social lore of the capital, which she has already exoloited in signed articles and a novel (Glass Houses?TIME, March 15, 1926"). For years she has been one of Washington's up-&-doing hostesses. She acquired the title of countess through her marriage with Count Joseph Gizycka, Austrian-Pole, whom she met in St. Petersburg and Vienna and married in 1904. After their divorce in 1908 she appealed to the Tsar, won custody of their daughter Felicia. In 1925 she married Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer. After his death she resumed...
...masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours...