Word: viscountesses
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...meets the eye. The giddy excitement of the St. Laurent show in Paris is partly real, partly a tempest in a B cup. Manhattan store windows and women's magazines were already chock-full of the new trends. Long before summer, Vogue Editor Diane Vreeland and best-dressed Viscountess Jacqueline de Ribes of fashion's Hall of Fame were wearing above-the-knee textured hose to all the best places-which automatically decrees the shape of things to come...
...Manhattan's annual Renaissance for Italian Youth Ball, the seasons were elegantly personified in a maypole pageant by Janet Neff (summer), wife of Investment Broker Joseph A. Neff; Lydia Melhado (autumn), wife of Investment Broker Frederick Melhado; and Viscountess de Rosière (winter), Ohio-born wife of French-born Jewelry Sales Executive Viscount Paul de Rosière. Gentle spring: evergreen Actress Joan Fontaine. Commented Cosmetics Entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden from her ringside table at the Plaza Hotel benefit: "We had all forgotten that charity can be such...
...Convertible. Six years ago, seeking to shake off the shadow, Tony plotted to get rid of his peerage in advance. His blonde, U.S.-born wife Caroline cheerfully agreed to forgo the name, state and dignity of a viscountess. "Titles belong in fairy tales," said she. Tony also had the support of his father, a distinguished colonial administrator and longtime M.P. who had reluctantly accepted his peerage only to help swell Labor's strength in the House of Lords. (The life peerage, which does not pass on to descendants, had not yet been created.) Between them, Tony and his father...
...centuries-long paring down of its once formidable powers, Britain's House of Lords has suffered many a trauma. But few came as quite such a shock as the Great Trauma of 1922. That year the Viscountess Rhondda, a doughty Welsh suffragette who went to jail once for dropping a crude incendiary bomb inside a post box, had the gall to request a writ of summons that would give her a seat alongside Their Lordships. A few of the noble lords found her petition "irresistible," but not so the grumpy Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Birkenhead. The Lord Chancellor...
...list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...