Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books about the place. In addition he has an admirable wife, charming, meek little Helen Hayes. But the Earl of Darnaway has already promised the job to one of his wife's relations, a gentleman of title, many debts, not much sense. Fortunately Miss Hayes discovers that the Countess of Darnaway has had an affair with her husband's aide...
...taxi to Sweden's Royal Palace last week drove Mr. & Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Lord High Chamberlain, Baron Rude-beck, and the First Lady in Waiting, Countess Lewenhaupt led them into an antechamber abuzz with guests. After a pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel...
Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...
...taken by Boston debutantes. The list of players is as follows: Albert, V. E. Blaque '34; Grand Duke Paul, Brinckerhoff Jackson '32: Grand Duke Pierre, W. A. C. Miller III '32; Matard, Charles Fowler '33; Floshe, F. F. Silva '34; The Prince, Gilbert Kerlin '33; Xenia, Kathleen Chase: Countess Avaloff. Beatrice Clough; Henriette, Lorraine Warner; Anna, Camilla Brown...
...know the pharmacology of quinine. But they did know that the bark of a certain tree, from which quinine is derived, cured their malaria. They told their lore to a friendly magistrate, Juan Lopez Canizares, when in 1630 he developed the disease. He passed the information to Countess of Chinchon, wife of Peru's then viceroy, when she fell victim. It was after her that the cinchona tree and its quinine derivatives was named...