Ejemplos de uso de Nancy Astor
1. Their hostess at Cliveden, Nancy Astor, a famed socialite and the first female MP, held a mock "Parliament" on social reform before dinner for her guests.
2. A no–brainer for publishers Methuen, really, since it was Nancy Astor who walloped Isaac in every Plymouth parliamentary election he ever fought.
3. According to one guest, Ferguson has been approached to stand for Congress, doing ‘a Nancy Astor in reverse‘ (Astor, though American, became the first woman to sit in parliament). Impossible, I ventured.
4. All women do.‘ (Nancy Astor) What others said: ‘The Astors toiled not, neither did they spin, but an earthly father, free enterprise, and compound interest had endowed them with the glories of Solomon.‘ (Justin Kaplan, author of When the Astors Owned New York Highlight: Brooke Astor gave more than 100m to libraries and museums.
5. Key descendants: Caroline Astor, socialite; John Jacob Astor IV, hotel builder who went down with the Titanic; Viscount William Waldorf Astor, hotel builder, owner of the Cliveden estate in Buckinghamshire and, formerly, The Observer; Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons.