Word: peeress
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...editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress...
Citation: "Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights...
...four official U.S. representatives after the long ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Turned out in gold-braided full-dress uniform, General of the Army Omar Bradley launched into an enthusiastic off-beat rumba with Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles, whose diamond tiara was as grand as anything worn by a peeress...
Here and there, a hairdresser rushed to a stately town house for a 5 a.m. appointment to arrange a peeress' coiffure. Special trains shuttled underground from South Kensington to Westminster Station to take dignitaries to the Abbey in time for the 8:30 closing of doors. The "Peers' Specials" were crammed with lords clutching cardboard boxes containing their robes and coronets, with pages suffering the chilly embarrassment of tights. At the Abbey entrance, a coronet fell from one peer's hand, clattering along the wet pavement until a soldier retrieved...
...Knight. Ambitious Doug Fairbanks Jr., at 43, has come a long way since he was merely the son of a famous father. Matching Senior's success in both Mayfair (the first Fairbanks took a British peeress for his third wife) and moviedom, Junior has managed as well to find fame & fortune as a dabbler in many other arts, including writing, painting, warfare, diplomacy and the cultivation of friends in high places all around the world. Franklin Roosevelt died on the eve of a scheduled appointment in which Lieut. Commander Fairbanks, U.S.N.R., was to have explained a plan to smuggle...