Word: ladyship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Iris Mountbatten, 27, pretty great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
Viscountess Alexander, wife of Canada's new Governor General, struck a blow for imperial clubbiness at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Her Ladyship teed off at the 146-yard sixth hole into a stiff wind, dropped a hole-in-one-the first of the club season and the first in her life...
...trip, thanks to fellow-passenger Lord Beaverbrook, had been dandy. "He's such a nice man," said the Viscountess, "and he took such good care of me. He . . . kept giving all kinds of orders like 'Get a rug for Her Ladyship' and things like that. It was almost like old times when one had servants traveling with...
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