Word: peeresses
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...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...
...funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges to visit his home as an English peeress (her resemblance to the girl on the boat becomes a comic asset rather than a plot difficulty). She gets him to marry her-then on the honeymoon train so out rages him with fibs about other men that he quits the train in his silk pajamas. Of course he sails...
...talented private secretary who, at 37, after her employer's wife died, finally married her 70-year-old boss not long before his death is the Dowager Marchioness of Reading. Last week this indomitable peeress, who heads today the British Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defense, announced at Preston in Lancashire an idea as practical as the dictaphone...
...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...