Word: peeress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hours. It took place neither at punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that the men eventually shared a chuckle...
...suppose you want an interview-the-I-was-born-in-the-saddle-and--received- my early-education-in-the-wilds-of- someplace or-other sort of thing. Well, I'm afraid I'm not very good at it." With these words, Beatrice Lillie, the English peeress starring in "Oh, Please!" at the Tremont Theatre, greeted her interviewer between the acts of the performance last night...
Tremont--Beatrice Lillie in "Oh, Please!"--8.15 o'clock--The Hub may look at a peerless peeress...
...Majesty could do no more. The act was equivalent to conferring knighthood; and the King-Emperor is restricted by custom from conferring a higher title than "Dame" on a woman not already a peeress...
...Finance Minister Ernest Blythe, brusque, intimated that he might offer the U. S. mint the job of striking 100% Irish coins. Arlington Street is one of the shortest and most august in London's West End. Every house on the street is the property of a peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount...