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...Famed persons divorced by Judge Bartlett in the last four years: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Irving T. Bush (terminal), Mrs. Bainbridge Colby (diplomacy), Janet Flagg Harlan Trubee (judiciary), Claire Brokaw (Vanity Fair), Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee (Actress Tallulah's sister), Jessica Sargeant (now Mrs. Richard Barthelmess), Evelyn Marshall Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau...
...White House nearly? Because it is all Butt...
...four years (1908-12) that was considered a hilarious joke in official Washington society. Its reference was to Major Archibald Willingham Butt, military aide to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. More than a decorative figure, Major Butt was also political counselor, social manager, playmate and secret chronicler about the White House. Shrewd enough to know the advantage of his confidential position and with a sharp eye on posterity, he wrote (sometimes from quotations jotted down on his immaculate cuffs) almost daily letters to "Dear Clara," his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis F. Butt of Augusta, Ga. In these, he gave...
...house-servants. The grouse season brings Scotland an annual income of about $10,000,000. To shoot Scotch grouse, a visitor gets in a car with his host after breakfast and drives to some point on the edge of the moors. Then he gets out and walks to the butt-a crescent-shaped blind screened with furze. Last year one U. S. millionaire kept a tractor at the moor's edge in which he drove to the butt after leaving his car, but this luxury was criticized as bad sportsmanship. Gunners are served by three classes of retainers...
Nevertheless the Poet Laureate is a member of the Lord Chamberlain's office. He receives £72 a year, and, as a bonus, can take his choice between an additional £27 or a butt of canary wine. Moreover it was noticed last week, when Poet John Masefield was appointed Laureate, to succeed the late Dr. Robert Bridges, that the sale of his books spurted, both in London and New York, due partly to public clamor, partly to bursts of advertising feverishly concocted overnight by shrewd publishers...