Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Teller 2nd and John Oliver. Richard Teller 2nd was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, serving as such at the same time that his father was Minister to China. John Oliver is a former secretary to President Thomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, last year married in Rome the beautiful Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti. A sister of John Oliver, Frances, is married to Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain...
...active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
...haughty Pekingese. Last week the French government sent to the U. S. on the maiden voyage of the French line's sumptuous new cabin class liner Lafayette an "official mission," consisting of the Marquis Jacques de Dampierre, the marquise, their son Count Henri de Dampierre and his countess. These personages the government officially called "descendants" of the great French hero of the American Revolution: General the Marquis Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier de La Fayette...
...Next the Countess Szembeck, wife of the Polish Minister at Bucharest, was forced to ruin her lace evening gown by reclining in some particularly squelchy mud. "Outrageous!" she stormed, sobbed...
...Countess Szembeck's justly praised "swanlike neck" yielded a $7,000 string of pearls. Diplomat Davila's fat roll of banknotes amounted, he later claimed, to "more than...