Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crumpet passing proximity to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. The chat waxed cordial and lasted for two hours. It took place neither at punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that the men eventually shared a chuckle...
...Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, has two sons: George Henry Hubert Lascelles, aged 6, and Gerald David, aged...
...annexation by the U. S. as a "bogey" kept alive by Canadian alarmists. He lunched with Prime Minister King, dined with U. S. Minister William Phillips. At a state dinner given by the Government, he bespoke "rivalry without bitterness" and proceeded to a reception given by Governor-General and Viscountess Willingdon. Returning home after four days, he brought a thorough going invitation to President Coolidge to visit Canada...
Viscount Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, and Viscountess Willingdon visited Harvard yesterday. After a luncheon with President and Mrs. Lowell, they were escorted on a tour around the University. On their visit to the Fogg Art Museum, they were entertained by several songs rendered by the University Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison...
Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...