Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in London, Viscountess Rhondda, feminist, business woman, editress (with Rebecca West and others) of Time and Tide (weekly), declared in an interview: "The 'smart set' is not a tiny fraction of society playing about in Mayfair. Every suburb and provincial city has its smart set now - its gossip of leisured, idle, irresponsible women. . . . They permeate society with the ideals of the harem. . . . Sex is their profession. So they put an enormous value on sex, on sex discussion and 'problems,' on the high importance of sex attraction. . . . They have become a menace...
Thus "blooded," according to tradition, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, eldest grandson of the King-Emperor, son of Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, is considered henceforth a full-fledged fox hunter, may aspire to the eminence of his father, as Master of the famed Bramham Moor Hunt...
Married. Mrs. Irene Gibson Post, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson and niece of Viscountess Astor; to John J. Emery of Cincinnati; at Dark Harbor, Me. Mrs. Post divorced her husband, George B. Post, last March in Paris...
...five other female M. P.'s are Viscountess Astor, the Duchess of Athol, Mrs. Hilton Philipson, Miss E. Wilkinson and Miss Susan Lawrence...
...Stiffened with chivalrous disapprobation as Laborite J. J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones twice called Viscountess Astor a liar while she flayed corruption alleged to exist in his constituency, West...