Word: viscountess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Anne Ferelith, Viscountess Anson (born Bowes-Lyon), 30, slim, brunette niece of Queen Elizabeth: Thomas William Arnold, Viscount Anson, 34, Grenadier Guards captain, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; after almost ten years of marriage (three of separation), two children; in London...
...Model of the Universe and Ouspensky's earlier Tertium Organum, a massive work of esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere, then in Washington, read Tertium Organum, got "passionately" interested in it, cabled-Ouspensky an offer to sponsor him in England...
...with Annie, Tanis & Loelia. In London, hostess-of-the-week was Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...
...only Tory woman M.P. was addressing an elegant, perfumed gathering of Tory women in London. Viscountess Davidson proudly told how one of her party helpers had used an effective line to discredit Labor's program. When the "No More Fish" sign went up after an hour's wait in a fish queue, this bright Tory had said sarcastically to the angry women: "Well, never mind, ladies. What does it matter?-we own the Bank of England...
...Viscountess' energetic speech drew polite applause, but some knew, and many another Tory knew, that mere discontent with the Labor Government's inability to end shortages was not enough. All over England local Tory meetings were saying so last week. From Carlisle on the Scottish border came a demand that Tory headquarters announce a policy that "will prove attractive to youth." Said one delegate: "We want a restatement of the Conservative Party's faith." A sympathetic echo came from Tory farmers and retired business people meeting in Worcester on the edge of Wales. In London Mrs. Mavis...