Word: empress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist, a Communist, then got a Cabinet job under Rightist Premier Pierre ("The Deal") Laval, today owns a newspaper called La Justice. Virtually every Paris paper reported he had taken as his office the Continental's super-ornate "Imperial Suite," in which lived for 30 years Eugenie, last Empress of the French -and after Eugenie, none except royal or titled guests until an exception was made for Admiral Byrd-but M. Frossard insisted he had not moved into Eugenie's rooms "because memories would stop me from sleeping." The onetime Communist last week not only undid a good...
Still strong for the ladies of Spain, the aging Minister interested himself in a pretty girl named Eugénie de Montijo, granddaughter of a U. S. consul whom Irving had known at Malaga. Eight years later she was Empress of France. But Irving's "favorite" was a fun-loving beauty with brooding eyes named Leocadia Zamora. Author Bowers is the first biographer to discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior...
...opera with Society Empress Grace Wilson (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt, Georgia-born Mrs. J. Ormond Lawson-Johnston, once a Broadway mammy singer known as Betty Lee, now a London socialite and intimate friend of the Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...
...Atlantic, obscured by these events, and by winter fog and an efficient blanket of censorship, a large group of long, grey shapes proceeded methodically in eight days from Halifax, N. S. to a port in west Britain.* In that camouflaged convoy were such crack passenger liners as Aquitania, Batory, Empress of Britain. Guarding them was Britain's main Battle Fleet, for on this convoy no slightest chance could be taken...