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...Lady Astor's Nightgown
Wall Street last week beheld an unusual sight-Mrs. Vincent Astor, slim and chic, standing on the running board of a large yellow automobile shaking a coin box, begging contributions...
Safe in Harbin, Lord Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, decided to send into the dangerous North a subordinate member of the British delegation, William Waldorf Astor, eldest son of Lord & Lady Astor. Promptly U. S. Delegate Major General Frank McCoy volunteered to send with Mr. Astor his aide, Lieut. William S. Biddie of Portland, Ore. (no kin to Philadelphia's Biddies). By airplane Scouts Astor & Biddle left for Tsitsihar, flying over Manchurian steppes infested with Chinese soldiers and bandits...
Heckled in the House of Commons for referring to "the late Mr. Fisher," Lady Astor retorted: "When people leave this House they are dead to me!" Cried another female M. P.: "What about Lord Astor, your own husband?" Bound to win the argument Lady Astor found her self tically saying: dead ''Oh, most of Lord the Astor! time!" He's practically dead most of the time...
...Popularity was the death of the Fakirs Ball It got so tough it had to be killed. There were battles royal on the ballroom-floor. Drunken youths played the hat & coat game in the cloakrooms. Chorus girls had their clothes torn off. Somebody shattered the chandeliers in the Hotel Astor; next year the Fakirs rolled table tops down the Commodore stairway, injuring several passersby. The Fakir exhibitions stopped in 1917, but the Ball went on. In 1923 New York hotelkeepers banded together and announced that so far as they were concerned the Fakirs might hold their Ball in an armory...