Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, the S. S. Berengaria celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner. At the Captain's table sat Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania. At a small table, separate, alone, brooded Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, champion of the independence of women, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was onetime Duchess of Marlborough (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29). Mrs. Belmont avoided other passengers; when asked to speak, refused; between meals sat reading. At times the book would rest in her lap, neglected, while her eyes saw far away...
...Sacred Rota of Rome, harried by indignant Protestants, published the testimony it swore it received before annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough. This revealed breathtaking details. Before the Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark, Eng., it stated, the Duke of Marlborough with Consuelo, his onetime Duchess, and Mrs. Belmont, her mother, and Mrs. Mary V. S. Tiffany, Consuelo's aunt, and Mrs. Lucy Jay, family friend, confirmed the following: In 1895, Consuelo Vanderbilt was secretly engaged to one Winthrop Rutherfurd. Her mother discovered so; commanded separation on grounds of social prestige. Consuelo demurred. Her mother...
...last week the President received more than 100 visitors. Among them: the Duchess of Hamilton, antivivisectionist, and other British ladies; Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and many an agricultural college president; General Charles H. Sherrill and his Olympic Games Committee; lame duck Senator Harreld of Oklahoma who was defeated in the elections; Major General Lejeune, Commandant of the Marines, who invited the President to a football game...
...they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which she is subjected by the experimenting male. The artist-scientist becomes conscious of the female only when the woman-object threatens...
...street is the property of a peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner...