Word: isobel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Isobel A. Jones '89 said she talked to the son of the Archduke of Luxembourg at the dinner and danced with the commanding general of the Dutch armed forces following the dinner...
Students "perceive him [Paul] as a victim," said sophomore Naline Lai. "The methods that Robinson used were really bad," freshman Isobel T. White concurred. "It's really given him [Paul] a bad name at the school...
...early 1950s, Lady Isobel Barnett, wife of the lord mayor of Leicester, became a celebrity in Britain as a panelist on the BBC's version of What's My Line? Last month Lady Barnett, 62 and widowed ten years, faced a panel herself: a jury considering charges that she shoplifted a tin of tuna and a carton of cream worth about $2. She admitted slipping the items into a cloth bag pinned inside her coat, but insisted it was an oversight, and she told the court the cloth bag was where she kept a flashlight as protection against...
...page news in Britain. The day after her death, one tabloid ran a purported interview with Lady Barnett, complete with the headline "PLEASE HELP ME-I CAN'T STOP STEALING." The shopkeeper who had turned in Barnett received abusive letters. Wrote Novelist Penelope Mortimer, in the Evening Standard: "Isobel Barnett's disguise had been cracking for some time. No woman of her intelligence steals so clumsily unless she wants to get caught...