Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Viscountess was the general manager of her weekly magazine Time & Tide (no kin), Miss D. S. Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell...
During the abdication crisis of Edward VIII, Lady Rhondda said in a radio broad cast: "If he [the King] marries her [Mrs. Simpson] he will offend against the standards of the old morality. On the other hand, it seems to me that the new morality which says he should marry...
Last week Lady Rhondda went on: "In England we have stopped completely talking about the abdication of King Edward. After all it affected only one Englishman directly. That is why England took the abdication right in stride and passed over to the more important thing-the threat against the lives...
Since 1933, Britain's dusty little Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister...
Lady Houston's dictatorship over her publishing property had been nonetheless complete for all that it was usually exercised in absentia. Fond of staying on her yacht Liberty, once the property of Joseph Pulitzer, Lady Houston used its cabin as a writing room in which to compose the doggerel...