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...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...
...Lady Astor finally sailed back to England as she had come, happily firing from port and starboard. In the U.S., said the teetotaling viscountess, she had found too much sex in advertising, too much talk about disease on the radio, and too much liquor in the young folks. "Nevertheless," she reported, "I've had a wonderful time...
...Viscountess Alexander, wife of Canada's new Governor General, struck a blow for imperial clubbiness at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Her Ladyship teed off at the 146-yard sixth hole into a stiff wind, dropped a hole-in-one-the first of the club season and the first in her life...
Lady Astor, facing a group of reporters in Washington, faced a sudden situation: one of her nylons let go. The indomitable Viscountess, explaining chattily that she kept her stockings loose "so they wouldn't tear," stepped behind a desk, quickly pulled herself together, carried...
...trip, thanks to fellow-passenger Lord Beaverbrook, had been dandy. "He's such a nice man," said the Viscountess, "and he took such good care of me. He . . . kept giving all kinds of orders like 'Get a rug for Her Ladyship' and things like that. It was almost like old times when one had servants traveling with...