* 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( she had been elected to that position on November 28 ).

Another version of the story is that he canvassed with Nancy, Lady Astor, MP for Plymouth Sutton, and received an embarrassingly friendly welcome at boarding houses who were used to renting rooms by the hour to sailors and their lady companions.

* 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

She even goes on to state that Lady Nancy Astor ' even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England '.

Through her many social connections, Lady Astor became involved in a kind of political circle called Milner's Kindergarten.

The political significance of Milner's Kindergarten was limited, but it yielded a much more significant result for Lady Astor personally.

At first Lady Astor had only marginal interest, but after a period of illness and surgery she decided that those events had not been what God wanted.

In time, his bitter rejection of Catholicism also influenced Lady Astor, intensifying her own anti-Catholicism.

Lady Astor became known as a friend to soldiers, and that proved useful when she ran for office.

So Lady Astor decided to contest the vacant Parliamentary seat.

The first woman elected to the British Parliament, Constance Markievicz, said Lady Astor was " of the upper classes, out of touch ".

( While Lady Astor was the first female member of the House of Commons who actually took up her seat, she was not the first woman to be elected to the House.

Indeed, the Duchess of Atholl ( elected to Parliament in 1923, four years after Lady Astor ) rose to higher levels in the Tory Party before Astor did, and this was largely as Astor wished.

During this period Lady Astor did some significant work outside the political sphere.

Lady Astor was initially sceptical, but later the two women became close and Astor used her wealth to aid their social efforts.

The 1930s were a decade of personal and professional difficulty for Lady Astor.

Despite her anti-Catholicism, Lady Astor also had a friendship with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and the correspondence between them is reportedly filled with anti-Semitic language.

Lady Astor did not seem to be bothered by the fact that so many of her public statements caused difficulties.

He railed against the Pope for not supporting Hitler's annexation of Austria and his words influenced Lady Astor in many ways.

It was generally believed that it was Lady Astor who, during a World War II speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army who were fighting in the Italian campaign as the " D-Day Dodgers ".

A statue at Cliveden, overlooking 42 inscribed stones dedicated to the dead of World War I. Edgar Bertram Mackennal | Sir Bertram MacKennal's figure represents Canada with the head reputedly modeled by Lady Astor.

Lady Astor did not feel that her final years were a period of personal decline.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

It was no longer fashionable to be seen with fabulous `` Lady Harrington ''.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.

Lady Da smiled at him often, but there was no love in this place.

The Lady Da, naked in the dusty plain, waved a hospitable hand and showed that there was a place for him to sit beside her.

Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning.

In around 1390, the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Abensberg was founded by Count John II and his wife, Agnes.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.

Al-Mutarrif's sister, known as al-Sayyida (" the Lady "), was entrusted with his education.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.