Word: peeresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What I think of the American press would never do to print. . . . I can see your headlines now. 'Lady Astor Slams America.' . . . But don't say 'British Peeress Came Back to Criticize'-because 't aint true. . . . What did I talk to the President about? All sorts of things. I knew him since he was a little boy. I was telling him how remarkable it was for a man so hated to be so free from hate. Don't you think he's hated? You haven't been where...
...Fumitaka Konoye, 22, son of Japan's new Premier, made the world press by being elected captain of Princeton's golf team (TIME, June 14). Last week Princess Yori, 6, third daughter of Japan's Emperor, had a picture of herself relay racing at the Peeress' School printed in the New York Times. Captioned the Times: A JAPANESE PRINCESS MAKES THE TEAM...
...Before the marriage takes place Mrs. Simpson will be made a peeress in her own right...
...Marquess of Londonderry was resoundingly dropped last week by solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...
...Since the War Peers and Peeresses going bankrupt have averaged seven per year, but efforts to keep them out of jail nearly always succeed and no Peer or Peeress was in jail last week. In February 1934 His Grace the Duke of Leinster barely escaped incarceration by paying his irate tailor...