Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before an audience of Plymouth women, the Viscountess Astor fulminated against submarines in general. Apropos of the disaster said she: "I would go around the world lecturing five times over if I thought I could do anything to persuade the nations of the world to abandon submarines and poison...
...Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Alfred Mond and Viscountess Astor followed. The first dwelt on the psychological effects of the Singapore base on the Japanese; the second called the naval estimates a sham; the third thought that the Army and the Navy should be strong enough to secure peace...
...Among the American peeresses present: Countess Beatty, Duchess of Marlborough, Viscountess Astor, Countess of Galloway, Countess of Carnarvon...
...fine August day, King George announced to his subjects that the proverbial stork had visited Goldborough Hall, Yorkshire, the residence of his only daughter, Mary, and his son-in-law, Viscount Lascelles. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, had given birth to a second son. His loyal subjects responded by wishing joy to the mother and babe, who were reported to be "doing well...
...Viscountess Rhondda has led the fight for the admission of peeresses to the Lords. The case was referred to the Privileges Committee of the Commons. She claimed a seat on the Sex Disqualification Act of 1919, which provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex from the exercise of any public function. The Committee, rejecting the plea, said that a seat in the Lords was an "honor" and not a "public function." Briant's bill may lead to the establishment of "The House of Lords and Ladies...