Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...acre estate. Their Royal Highnesses arrived late, but turned out of their log cabin quarters at 7 a. m. on the first morning of their visit, went before breakfast to inspect the extensive and varied livestock herd, now featured by two ponderous and potent bulls and a superb stallion, the gift of King-Emperor George...
...ranch pays, and a rawnch doesn't, but I am not going to give away which my place is." The Canadian tour of Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin party spent a few days at Banff, superb Alberta sports centre now being developed by the Cana dian Pacific System. At Banff jovial Mr. Baldwin submitted to initiation rites making him a "blood brother" of the local Stoney Indians who christened him "Sitting Eagle...
From at least four aspects M. le Senateur Henry de Jouvenel is worthy of remark. He is editor of the great Paris daily Le Matin. He is husband to the superb, the mocking, subtle, obsessing actress "Colette."* He was recently French High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 and Sept. 6, 1926). And he has been for some years a leading member of the commission which goes each September to represent France at the Assembly of the League of Nations. In this role, M. le Senateur perpetrated last week a sensation...
...York World; at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife of Wm. Scoville Moore; Constance, wife of Wm. Gray Elmslie...