Sentences with phrase «grande dame society»

It all hangs on one deal, the one piece of property, Tavern on the Green in Central Park, that no one has been able to persuade its owner, grande dame society matron Mrs. Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury), to sell.

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The Ducote sisters are the true grandes dames of Athena society — intelligent, hard - working and intolerant of pretention and snobbery.
One of Paris's original grandes dames, it first opened as the Hotel Majestic in 1908 and played host to high society for several decades (including Stravinsky, Proust, Joyce and Picasso) before falling into government hands during the Second World War.
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