Word: torlonias
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...Atlas, whose brawny biceps and leopard skin breechclout are familiar to all readers of pulp magazine advertisements.* He stood on a pedestal while below him paraded socialite ladies dressed as Sun, Air, Water, Bananas, Peaches, Carrots & Peas, Tomatoes, Milk, Coffee and Greens. Central figure of "Wealth" was Donna Marina Torlonia, gowned in gold sequins, before whom paraded more socialites representing Travel, Art, and assorted angels with gilded wings. "Happiness" was represented by the Court of Venus. The Goddess of Love was impersonated by Leonora Corona, onetime singer at the Metropolitan Opera. A Texas girl whose costume as Thai...
...more serious girls arrived to inspect the cows, learn what they could of milking's art. Boasted Debutante Carol Prichitt: "I once lived on a farm. . . . You know, it had a house at one end and we used to grow radishes." Only successful rehearsers were Donna Marina Torlonia (who once milked a Philadelphia cow) and Princess Dolly Obolensky (whose family once owned some cows in France). At midnight the cows were wakened from sleep for the contest. Chattering debutantes, dressed in sport clothes, trooped from the dance floor and lined up. Blushing attendants led them...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatrix Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 25, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 23, of Rome, son of Manhattan's Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia...
...York last week an equally expensive audience attended the Green Ball at the Waldorf, watched Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Donna Marina Torlonia, Mrs. James Russell Lowell, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and Clare Boothe Brokaw stalking about the stage in green evening dresses...
Engaged. John Jacob Astor III, 20, posthumous son of John Jacob Astor (drowned on S. S. Titanic), $3,000,000 heir on his 21st birthday; and Donna Cristiana Torlonia, Manhattan socialite, daughter of Rome's Prince Marino TorIonia...