Word: isobel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lady Isobel Violet Kathleen Manners, 18, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, niece of Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness...
...down, the Sosnowski case became a lurid legend, strictly censored in the German Press, totally baffling to correspondents until they were able to tell the U. S. Embassy that languishing in jail and possibly about to be beheaded for "treason" was an inoffensive young U. S. music student, Miss Isobel Lillian Steele. Diplomatic pressure forced Germany to disgorge Miss Steele (TIME, Jan. 7), even the secret police finally admitting that she was guilty of nothing. But the music student had been innocently acquainted with Baroness von Berg, proceeded to spill all sorts of Sosnowski facts, and is now hard...
...Filthy, obscene, contaminating, Also in good spirits as she landed in Manhattan to close a $1,000 contract to tell her story to the tabloid Daily News last week, was Miss Isobel Lillian Steele, the U. S. music student whom Nazis arrested and held for four months at Berlin, charging her with everything from Communism to espionage (TIME...
William Edward Dodd. the fighting North Carolina Baptist who is U. S. Ambassador to Germany, got orders from the State Department last week "to proceed actively to clarify the status" of Miss Isobel Lillian Steele, a U. S. citizen who had sat incommunicado for 88 days in a Nazi jail. The German Government refused to tell Ambassador Dodd what charges have been made against Miss Steele. To her friends, however, there was no great mystery about why Isobel is in trouble...
According to Isobel's mother, who hastily decamped from Germany shortly after her daughter's arrest, Isobel became terribly outspoken against the Hitler regime in the presence of a Nazi suitor of her younger Sister Marion...