Word: peeresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into a small, smart shop on London's Bond Street strolled two women. One was a $24-a-week typist, the other a peeress. In turn, each one plunked down 49 shillings ($9.80), and walked out smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...
Nancy Astor, Britain's tart-tongued, opinionated, Virginia-born peeress-politico, first woman to sit in the House of Commons, announced that she would retire from 25 years of politics at term's end, confided, "I will not fight the next election because my husband does not want me to. ... I am bound to obey. Is not that a triumph for men?" Said, her husband, Lord Astor: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star. When she got into the House I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort of V-2 rocket...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...knocked all of a heap by his amazing appearance. When I said that 1 wanted to paint him, his wife told me that he refused to sit to anyone." The obdurate nonsitter was Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski. The painter: Taos, N.M.'s Dorothy Brett, artist, writer, former British peeress, sister of the White Rani of Sarawak (British Borneo), bosom friend of the late British novelist, D. H. Lawrence. This week Painter Brett proved that she could paint Conductor Stokowski whether he posed or not. Her exhibition of 27 paintings in the Santa Fe Museum featured some bombers in level...
...life goes on. Some people connive to get extra petrol rations. Some patronize the black market. Some evade male military service or female labor service. Drawing-room diehards are still heard worrying about the Beveridge Report and Russia. In one such salon a white-haired, gilt-titled peeress ends a discussion of currency problems with the deathless remark: "For my part, I think there should be only ?100 notes because they are so much more practical." A successful Bloomsbury poet, looking into his brimming wineglass, observes: "Poverty must be very unpleasant, I think...