Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans who read this exchange of compliments in the press pictured Viscount Gladstone as a young pup, for all his peerage, a loud and foul-mouthed lord. Had Captain Wright rested content with $625 damages, he and his charges against the late Prime Minister would have seemed vindicated. But Captain Wright, having drawn blood, or rather golden damages, tried for more. He brought suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone, who happens not to be "a young pup," is aged...
...whole complexion of the affair altered as Captain Wright testified last week on his own behalf and was cross-examined by Lord Gladstone's attorneys. At the trial Lord and Lady Gladstone sat together, venerable, glacial; and in the visitors' gallery sat famed (though slightly passÉ) dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; the Rt. Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lady Milner and many another...
Testimony. Said Captain Wright: "The late Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was a gross sensualist. ... At a meeting of the Supreme War Council Lord Milner said of Mr. Gladstone that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist...
...young man. As the tender passed the buoy by the Hog Island lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member, had plunged to the rescue. A one-time (class of 1917) Princeton footballer, saturnine Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr., publisher of the Chicago Journal of Commerce...
Died. Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France. His life was embittered in 1889 when he was falsely accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin...