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Last week London's Lord Mayor Sir Kynaston Studd dined exceedingly well. Among his guests were Viscount Byng of Vimy and Thorpe-le-Soken, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Viscount Lascelles, Lord Chancellor Baron Hailsham. Also present was Dr. Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton, author of many a learned treatise and many a tingling ghost story. All the guests were Eton graduates. Provost James offered the famed toast, Floreat Etonia. Then, pridefully eyeing the company, he added: "Gentlemen, the purpose of Eton is to produce old Etonians...
Viscountess Byng of Vimy sold last fortnight 130 large silver dinner plates, two mighty silver salvers, and two gigantic 18th century candlesticks, all superfluous portion of the ?750,000 ($3,650,000) estate recently left by her late Greek uncle, Merchant Pandeli Ralli (TIME...
...little boys walked on either side, one bearing a basket of bread, the other a basket of coal. At each home in the little street, first on one side, next on the other, front doors opened at the click of the silver key. Then Lady Byng flung into the hallway of each house; first a loaf of fine white bread and next a large and sooty piece of coal...
This behavior, extraordinary on the part of the wife of Britain's greatest living War hero. Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken, showed how striking an effect has been wrought upon Lady Byng by the fact that she very recently inherited some ?750,000 ($3,650,000) upon the death of a Greek uncle. (TIME...
Purists rejoiced that Viscountess Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken possesses a silver pass key by means of which she may assure herself at any hour that the conduct of her tenants is still above reproach...