Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near Salzburg at the villa of Count Raimund von Hoffmannsthal and his wife, U. S. born Alice Muriel Astor. Rumor immediately went round that the Duchess of Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister-in-law. From British sources in Vienna next day came no more definite news than that the Kents were "leaving for Yugoslavia and would visit the Windsors en route...
...happened since the day few years before when a shameless hussy appeared without stockings. Horrified, popping eyes were turned upon the Viscountess who blandly sat down, ordered tea. Next day the Squadron Committee met to discuss the crisis, decided to authorize the gatekeeper to turn back in future any woman so dressed. To newshawks Lord Hinchingbrooke expressed himself laconically: "Private club. . . . Private pants. " . . . Private matter. So what the Hell...
...extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" Béla Kun resting harmlessly at a sanatorium not far from the Datcha of Stalin. He occupied an unimportant non-political post as head of the Social Economic Publishing House at Moscow...
...instructor, a well-known muralist named Sibley, and his oldest daughter Freda. But it was a long time, what with strikes, accidents, job-hunting and the like, before the factories relaxed their hold to let him devote his full time to painting. Subsidized at last by a rich woman, he went to live with the Sibleys, worked as hard at painting as he had in the factories. His first exhibition was a big success...
...frequently, kept tabs on him the rest of his life, although the scared historian took care not to get in her clutches again. Wary of all women after that, he took revenge on them by emphasizing women's treachery in The Decline and Fall. But at least one woman paid him back with interest when she told a story of Gibbon, middleaged, burdened with gout and fat, getting down on his knees to a pretty female novelist and having to call a footman to put him on his feet again. Her other story was of the time...