Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Countess Uva Spina's the talk was about how the Americans in Roman society had somehow managed to survive the war and the Nazi occupation right in Rome. Even Signora Pallavicini-Margaret Roosevelt that...
...Princess Lydia Pasto Hotchkiss Cucurbitaceo-the department store, you know. And the Countess Vitetti-the former Natalie Coe of Long Island and South Carolina. And the Countess Roberti-old Ogden H. Hammond's daughter. And Marchesa Vastezza-the former Bobbie Belchers of New York. And Baroness Carogna-the former Josephine Paddle-ford of Waukegan and Washington, D.C. And the Countess del Sgombro-who was Daphne Zugsmith of St. Paid. And of course, the Marchesa Sconciatura, who was the former Bridget O'Hare of Worcester, Mass...
From Voltaire to Lenin, Europe's political exiles have found a haven in Switzerland. Recent notable refugees: Novelist Thomas Mann, running away from the Nazis in 1933; Countess Galeazzo (Edda Mussolini) Ciano, running away from the Allies and Nazis this year...
...months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
...Countess Gisèle de Chambrun, Manhattan socialite wife of a great-great-great-grandson of Lafayette, who "bumped" her car into a schoolboy last December, fracturing his legs, arms and skull, went to court to tell (in French) her version of the accident, got off with two $5 fines for "driving with a defective horn" and "failure to give right...