Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides fighting, Saltonstalls and Brookses kept their rank up by good investments and better marriages, marriages which linked them with impeccable Yankee names: Boylston, Everett, Lawrence, Lee, Leverett. Lev Saltonstall can count eight governors of Massachusetts among his forbears. One of them was long-nosed Governor James Sullivan, a political asset which qualified Saltonstall for membership in the Charitable Irish Society two years ago. A Brooks married Charles Francis Adams, Civil War ambassador to Britain. This tied the Saltonstalls to the mighty Adams family, including Presidents John and John Quincy, and Historians Henry and Brooks. Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Chardon...
Vivien Kellems, Connecticut cable-grip manufacturess, would-be striker against Federal income taxes (TIME, Jan. 31) wrote to Buenos Aires' Count Frederick von Zedlitz in 1943 (according to Washington's solemn-faced Democratic Representative John Main Coffee), addressed him as "My Darling Boy," told him she had been promised a high place in international affairs by an astrologer. Added she: ". . . how could that be if I am not married to you?" Revealing a few additional morsels of her billets-doux to the House, Coffee remarked: ". . . the rules of etiquette and the spirit of fair play prevent me from...
...spring floods should halt them-just as mud should long ago have halted them. The irony is that the early spring, which produced mud weeks before the usual time, has produced gradual thaws so that the usual spring floods may not occur at all. At least, the Germans cannot count on them...
...love you and the girls more than ever if that is possible. This I promise, I will be back. You can count on that. Love, Earl...
...Government. Communists throughout the world bowed their Red heads and took it like party members. Naples' Communist Paolo Tedeschi declared: "Perhaps the recognition embarrassed us somewhat. . . but it will neither lessen our sympathy . . . for Russian Communism nor . . . our determination to work ceaselessly for the King's removal." Count Carlo Sforza added: more appearance than reality...