Word: llangollen
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...spirited, devil-may-care rider who has been winning blue ribbons on the horseshow circuit for 15 years. Before her marriage to Croesusrich young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern for aspiring horsewomen. Her money-fed horses were the envy of the show...
...thus appeared that Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw may not always have been first in her husband's affections, she good humoredly ignored his Butt-letter last week. Friends found her more interested in recounting the details of a holiday which the Shaws have just taken at Llangollen, in Wales, where they sojourned in a suite of rooms once occupied by Poet Robert Browning. At present international interest in G. B. S. centers upon his forthcoming book, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism which will be published on or about June...