Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night club, should have announced her marriage to Count Pepito di Albertini of Rome. Few of Miss Baker's race would have kept the secret as long as she said she had kept it-20 days-and when the announcement was cabled to the U. S. last week, Negro newspapers carnivaled...
Meanwhile, in Paris, correspondents were asking: "Who is Count Pepito di Albertini?" Since the Parisian police keep a very careful record of all strangers, it was to M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe that reporters turned. They received a reply which was suavity itself: "Our records show that this gentleman came with Miss Baker from America, three years ago, as her manager. Their addresses in Paris have always been the same, although this residence has changed several times. The gentleman has never claimed a title other than 'Monsieur...
Josephine Baker, interviewed at the Folies Bergère, said: "My husband sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything. His father writes me the nicest letters, and his mother is right here in Paris stopping with us for a while...
Soon the New York Herald Tribune Paris Bureau announced: "The American Consul's records prove that Count Pepito made her his bride at the consulate...
...writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self-constituted critic. Mr. Dowse's letter is full of glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer. or of the study of language...