Word: peeresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Michael, a graduate student in Canberra, Australia, succeeds to the barony created in 1945. The son's wife, Hsiao Li, who served with Red-sympathizing Michael in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla forces in 1941-45, is the first Chinese woman ever to become a British peeress...