Word: peeresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stomacher. Goelets, Blisses and Wilsons had their oldtime boxes. In the Morgan box sat Mrs. Herbert Satterlee, Mr. Morgan's sister. With Mrs. Watts Sherman was her granddaughter, Eileen Gillespie, who almost became Mrs. John Jacob Astor III. Missing was old Mrs. Vanderbilt, Society's long-time peeress, and Otto Hermann Kahn, for years the Metropolitan's best friend. Both had died within the year...
...apologies for that dazzling snob the late Lord Curzon there is no end.* Last week, however, the Dowager Countess of Minto, whose husband was Curzon's immediate successor as Viceroy of India, released memoirs in which she raked Curzon of Kedleston as only an outraged peeress can without breach of taste...
...Kanto women. Physicians attached to the Imperial Household Ministry began a thoroughgoing medical examination of hundreds of applicants which will continue for at least a month. Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned to each newborn child of the Son of Heaven, the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, must be of peasant status. At these two symbolic points in Japanese life the lowest and the most exalted meet...