Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though bitterly anti-American, Mosley financed British-style fascism on a fortune inherited by his first wife from her grandfather, Chicago merchant prince Levi Z. Leiter. After her death he married Diana Mitford, whose blonde sister Unity was Hitler's good friend. In the '20s, before his fascist days, he was seriously reckoned as a future Prime Minister...
...crisis was provided by Princess Lee Radziwill. The Princess, Jackie Kennedy's sister, had taken on a marvelous fun assignment from McCall's to cover the collections. In haughty displeasure, Couturier Hubert de Givenchy declared that that made her a member of the "working press," barred her from his showing. Lee stalked off to Ravello in a huff. "It couldn't matter less," said she. "I haven't been buying his clothes; I've been wearing St. Laurent's." She was not telling Givenchy anything...
...Ravello. While Jack Kennedy played the summer bachelor in Washington, Jackie Kennedy stayed at Squaw Island near Hyannisport with Caroline and John Jr.-and that meant swimming, walking, trampoline-hopping and waterskiing. Next week she flies to Ravello on Italy's western coast, where Sister Lee Radziwill has rented the Villa Sangro, a 900-year-old, nine-room palace perched 1,200 feet above the Bay of Salerno...
Further threatening titled monogamy is the manner in which women set their caps for a peer ("One day he'll come along, the duke I love," Nancy Mitford's sister Deborah, now Duchess of Devonshire, once prophetically crooned). Especially guilty, says Hall, are American women, who represent "the most substantial marital hazard." Says Statustician Hall: "They are just that much more unstable than, say, a clergyman's daughter. Some 43% of second and third marriages by English peers to American women have so far broken up. Let's face it, if a peer marries an American...
...very pretty chiaroscuro you'll find in my track!" A failure in America, he goes to England, where the charm of the rain-wet countryside convinces him that life must be gentler there. He visits an aristocratic relative, dreams of living on his sumptuous estate and marrying his sister. But though the English countryside is gentle, the sour old aristocrat is not. After insulting the American, he brutally throws him out. "What a dream!" murmurs the American, soon to die. "What an awakening...