Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aristocracy in general rallied to plebeian tasks, as in Wartime. The Duchess of Westminster, onetime actress, drove a truck from which she sold newspapers. The Viscountess Massareene piloted a vegetable lorry. The Duchess of Sutherland, Baroness Rollo, et al, similarly busied themselves...
...Viscountess Rhondda:* "This dinner is part of our campaign to secure, once and for all, equal political rights for women...
Three times Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, propelled a bottle of champagne toward the monster's bow plates. Only at the last throw did she succeed in smashing the bottle...
...Durham, sleepiest of English "cathedral towns," the former Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, now Viscountess Astor, famed original female M. P., orated in part as follows to an assembly which she suspected of harboring Communist sentiments...
...this rhetorical flourish, Lady Astor descended from the platform prepared to make her exit from the hall in quiet triumph. Instead, unemployed males surged about her car, demanding that she fulfill her pledge-valiantly attempting to call the Rt. Hon. Lady's bluff. Upon reaching home, the harassed Viscountess was "deluged with letters...