Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie...
Purists rejoiced that Viscountess Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken possesses a silver pass key by means of which she may assure herself at any hour that the conduct of her tenants is still above reproach...
...extremely modest means of Viscount Byng of Vimy, famed War hero and now Commissioner of Police at Scotland Yard (TIME, July 16), were augmented last week when some ?750,000 ($3,650,000) was left to Viscountess Byng by her late, eccentric, oleaginous Greek uncle, M. Pandeli Ralli...
...everyone knows, the beauty of the Langhorne sisters long was the pride of Virginia, the joy of the nation's portrait painters. Their fame spread far and wide, to England where Nancy Langhorne, as Viscountess Astor, brought beauty and sharp wits to Parliament; to Manhattan, where Irene Langhorne became the wife of Charles Dana Gibson, noted artist in pen and ink, who hung her picture from a myriad mouldings, the original "Gibson girl...
Married. Colonel George T. Langhorne, U. S. A., veteran of the Spanish War and onetime assistant to the late Major General Leonard Wood; to Miss Mary K. Waller, of Chicago; at Cliveden, England, the home of Nancy Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, cousin of Colonel Langhorne...