Word: countrywomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgusted Washington Irving with his coarse "tavern manners." He shocked Boston with his foppish "velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess to my mind is the more kissable...