Word: countesses
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...Queen sent the letter to Countess Cecile Raczynska, wife of the Polish Ambassador. "My dear Countess," the Queen wrote, "isn't there something...
...Countess passed letter and note to her husband, who passed it on, with a very strong note, to the commanding officer at a Polish camp in Scotland...
Sample report, dated Nov. 21, 1814: "At the ball given by the Count Francis Pallfy, Alexander (I of Russia), who deeply admires the beauty of Countess Szechenyi-Guilford, said to her: 'Your husband is absent. It would be very pleasant to take his place temporarily.' The Countess replied: 'Does Your Majesty take me for a province...
...Haiti they called on a rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ...
...KEEPS A RENDEZVOUS-Georges Simenon-Harcourt ($2). Two first-class exploits of phlegmatic French Detective Maigret: One is the case of a Breton sea captain, slain after a frenzied voyage, which Maigret closes on an extra-legal note; the other a rural tragedy, involving the death of an elderly countess by induced shock. Translation not so smooth as earlier Simenon but both tales have brilliant workmanship...