Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next out of the motorcade stepped the morning-coated, silk-hatted bridegroom, deferentially escorting the Countess Costanzo Ciano, his mother. From the third car descended Donna Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...
Shamrock V. In Camper & Nicholson's yard at Gosport, England, the Countess of Shaftesbury christened the Shamrock V for Sir Thomas Lipton. It is a heavy boat, 77 ft. long, "made," said Builder George Nicholson, "to last a quarter of a century, maybe more." Its hull is of mahogany on a steel frame. The deck of the Shamrock IV was only half an inch thick and made of plywood, but you could load bricks on the two-inch planks of the Shamrock V. It will be much less speedy than the graceful boats which raced for the America...
Born. To Princess Yolanda, Countess di Bergolo, eldest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy; and Count Calvi di Bergolo; a third daughter; at Turin...
...Frances, Countess of Warwick, 68, widow, philanthropist, wrote in the April Cosmopolitan:-"! prophesy with no small amount of confidence that King George V ?or maybe his successor?will appear in history as the last monarch of his nation. . . . The Prince of Wales would make an admirable first president of a new republic...
...lips. For the past ten months the Graphic has published such stealth-got snapshots. Last week Graphic readers smirked and tittered at the "Unsuspected Moments" page. Not only had "Cyclops" got a picture of the Belgian Ambassador to Holland sitting on a shrub-hidden staircase with the Countess of Limburg-Thirmm at a Hague reception, but he had succeeded in taking a picture of himself in the mirror behind them...