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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outranks His Majesty's two grandsons, the sons of Princess Mary. This baby will ascend the throne in the event that she outlives George V, Edward of Wales and her father-providing of course that the Prince of Wales dies without issue and that a son is not born to her father. She thus ranks, at present, third in the line of succession; and only three women in England outrank her in official precedence: Queen Mary, Princess Mary and the Duchess of York, her mother...
...theory that numerous witnesses should be present at royal births came to its perfect flower in the France of Louis XVI. Marie Therese Charlotte, the first child born to that King and Marie Antoinette entered the world in the presence of everyone who could squeeze into her bedroom at the moment of delivery (at least 40). Servants valiantly ejected by the collar many a burly fellow, no longer privileged to remain after the event...
...onetime Alice Cohen and her husband, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, were commanded to dine, last week, with the King-Emperor, born George of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As the imperially commanded pair rode in a smart closed carriage attended by postilions from Windsor railroad station to Windsor Castle, they were cheered as the returning Viceroy and Vicereine of India. For them times have changed...
...splendor of granite towers watched his adolescence. He was born in Philadelphia, in 1860, and worked as a clerk in a railroad office, studying when he had time in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He sold his first drawings?some illustrations for a story in the Century Magazine?when he was 21. Two years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from...
They say that Daniel Willard's mind proceeds like one of his express trains-from start to destination without local stops. It must have run that way always. Born on a Vermont farm, he won a teacher's certificate before he was 16 and taught while finishing high school. Lacking funds to go to Dartmouth, he made the most of the Massachusetts Agricultural College-made too much of it, wore out his eyes. He got a track laborer's job with the idea of rising to the throttle of a locomotive, which he did in two years...