Word: mayoress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived on the Leviathan, which flew her Admiral's flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour of the U. S., they returned on the Leviathan...
Married. Ethel Pryke, "Lady Mayoress of London," daughter of Lord Mayor Sir William Pryke, to one Cyril Turner, lawyer; in St. Paul's Cathedral, by Dean Inge. Owing to the illness of her father, the bride could not ride in his ceremonial coach, which must only be used when the Lord Mayor is passenger. She traveled, however, in an excellent black coach, embossed with the city's coat of arms. She was accompanied by aldermen, coachmen, constables and the City Remembrancer, who were dressed in wigs and full ancient panoply. Married. Robert Wales Emmons III, employe...
...news swept over the radio. Country dames, undisturbed since "Boney" pranced on the sands of Boulogne, barricaded themselves in remote closets. One sheriff from the north counties telephoned the Mayoress of Newcastle to learn what the constabulary was doing to frustrate the Red menace. But he was only carrying coals to Newcastle; for the Mayoress probably wanted to know herself...
...days of Dickens' visit to America-his final arrival in Manhattan, "replete with New England dinners"-the wonderful Boz ball, in his honor, acclaimed "the greatest affair in modern times." His triumphant entrance and forced march (unhappy man!) around the hall, preceded by the Mayor and Mayoress and the "perspiring City Fathers" and followed by the entire assemblage which fell in behind, "whooping and cheering like a Sunday School class at a picnic"-and then, the ungrateful wretch returning to England and writing his dreadful American Notes...