Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next morning, they waited while the plane's engines were repaired. Nor could the newlyweds sit next to each other until a gallant stranger offered to change his seat. At last they were together and on their way. Had they found true happiness? "Oh yes!" cried the new Countess Harewood. "That's an unnecessary question...
...join each other but whose fingers refuse to do so. I am craving for their union, but he more I try to join them, the worse it gets. Yet I know that it can be done and that they are made for one another. --letter from Tolstoy to Countess Alexandra Tolstaya April...
...least, such is the aim of Hôtesses Internationales, an elite assortment of young ladies who were organized two years ago by two aristocratic demoiselles - Countess Marthe de la Rochefoucauld, 28, and Mademoiselle Claude de Clermont-Tonnerre, 24. Says Marthe: "The idea came to me when I was in New York and heard Americans complain about the difficulties - and the coldness - they found in France." She recruited her cousin Claude and a dozen other sang-bleu friends to provide chic and cheery guidance for foreigners in Paris...
...customer after dark, although the ladies are allowed to go out with a group of clients. Even then, the restrictions are so straitlaced that they stifle hopes for amour - or even for an evening of routine high life. "No nightclubs, no bars, no discothèques," says the Countess de la Rochefoucauld, and the girls, many of them young-marrieds, religiously obey...
...England searching for his absentee father. His quest scrapes his sensibilities against the Big Beat, campy pubs, Socialists, Tories, rebellious kids, bad pork pies-all the things that give the old country its overwrought atmosphere. And he sheds a few colonial illusions in a bedtime encounter with a cool countess...