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Much later on when Servia had become the pet of the British public, he sat next to Lord Birkenhead at a public dinner, and was mischievously asked. What about that Servian poster of yours? I expect you're sorry by this time that you sent...
...Earl Birkenhead: " Said I in a speech to Glasgow University students: 'The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout arms and sharp swords, and it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny...
...landed not far from Archie and Kermit Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Sir Thomas Lipton, ex-heavyweight champion Jim Corbett, John J. McGraw, George M. Cohan. The visiting British polo teams were there, all the Yankee and most of the Chicago White Sox ball players, Lord Birkenhead and his daughter...
...Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
Lady Eleanor Smith, 19-year-old daughter of Lord Birkenhead, now in the U. S.: " Said I, describing the Prince of Wales: ' He works so hard he doesn't have a lot of time for pleasure and, really, he is nice. I mean, not a bit conceited over the the idea that lots of girls like...