Word: peeresses
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...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...
Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...
Readers of the Court Circular of the London Times last week learned that another U. S. heiress had become a British peeress. Mrs. Cara Leland Broughton was the elevated lady. Sister of Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oil tycoon, and aunt of much-married Millicent Rogers Salm Ramos, she is a recent widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, a British engineering tycoon, to whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village...
...Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...
...Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the daughter could not be the Hon. Alicia. She would, of course, be Lady Alicia...