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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Week in Parlament | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: The Great Challenge | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...Viscountess Rhondda:* "This dinner is part of our campaign to secure, once and for all, equal political rights for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Again, Christabel | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Dec. 28, 1925 | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bluffs Called | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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