Word: 9th
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Died. Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 62, of an intestinal disorder; in London. In 1895 he married Consuelo Vanderbilt; in 1926, five years after her divorce from the Duke and her marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title...
...latest ex cathedra pronouncement from Colonel Apted, recently appointed chief of the Cambridge cavalry and hussars, appeared a few days ago on the Eliot House Bulletin board. It reads: "No parking will be allowed on Bolyston Street between Mt. Auburn Street and the River on Saturday, June 9th commencing at midnight tonight until 5 P. M. Saturday." Carefully inscribed below is a note to the effect that "this is a police regulation." And thus another fertile "parking" ground is denied the Eliot House playboys who seem inclined to seek them...
Sued for Divorce. By Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 33, eldest son of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, nephew of the Duke of Westminster; Lady Ashley (Louise Sylvia Hawkes), onetime showgirl, onetime dress model with whom he eloped seven years ago; in London. Charge: misconduct. Named corespondent: travel-loving Douglas Fairbanks Sr. from whom Gladys Mary Smith Pickford is currently seeking divorce...
Mahogany Hall (by Charles Robinson; produced by John R. Sheppard Jr.). For a long time after the Civil War, respectable women of Washington risked their reputations if they were seen walking on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue between 9th and 15th Streets. That was because from the south side nearly to the Potomac stretched the city's redlight district. It was called "Hooker's Division'' after doughty General Joseph ("Fighting Joe") Hooker, who once stabled his troops there and made thoughtful arrangements for their oblectation. The Division's No. 1 house was a rococo...
...nuns and the gapers liked best was Morgan Manuscript No. 1, the great Ashburnham Gospels (probably executed between 825-850), lettered in pure gold on purple vellum leaves, bound in golden plates set with ancient rubies and emeralds. Even more valuable for theological students was a case of 9th & 10th Century Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century De Materia...