Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psittacosis and Circus Clowns. Periodically, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell visited their fabulously wealthy grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Londes-borough. When the Earl went bathing, a mile of red carpet was laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge...
...such times. For proof we point the guilty finger toward Jack Ashley, of machine tool fame, who this week cund a recipient finger for his stories. And if you're still not convinced, please note the potential international complications in store for Dewey Miller in his affair with the Countess from Austria. Be careful she's not pulling a Don Carlos on, you, D. M., these continentals have interesting mores (customs, to the well-versed reader...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
...niece of the King of Sweden, Mrs. Hugo Cedergren, formerly Countess Elsa Bernadotte, will be the guest of Harvard University this afternoon. She will be received by Professor George H. Chase, Dean of the University and David M. Little, Master of Adams House...
...believer in scientific method as the most promising approach to truth, he is now writing a book (he thinks it is about his 30th) to prove his never-ending case. He is living in Princeton, N.J., in the cozy, old-fashioned Peacock Inn, with his good-looking young Countess (his third wife) and their six-year-old son, Conrad. He has given a few lectures at Princeton...