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...King's gold that he was spending? Dealers thought not, but the rumor persisted. S. D. Bowers, a collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been an international polo match. But now the excitement had cooled a little. Fevered patricians did not get up and shout their bids; they were represented by their agents who, to indicate a raise...
...Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...
Lord Derby, sportsman and statesman, is the latest peer to sell part of his estates. Last week, for a price said to be in the neighborhood of five million dollars, he disposed of his Bury and Pilkington estates in Lancashire to Messrs. Green of Chesterfield. The estates comprise about 5,000 acres, on which are 50 farms, 500 houses and some 2,000 leaseholds...
...President had searched the country to find the greatest antithesis of Mr. Daugherty, he might well have discovered Mr. Stone in that way. But no such widespread search was necessary. Stone was an Amherst man. He had been born and reared at Chesterfield, in New Hampshire, right next to Vermont. From Amherst he was graduated in '94 when Cal Coolidge was a Junior. Four years later he was graduated from Columbia Law School. Thereafter he began simultaneously to practice law and to teach (at Columbia). He became a member of the firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone...
AARON BURR. " He was a man who came into the world to amuse himself." He loved people and people loved him?especially women. A spendthrift?something between a Chesterfield and Falstaff. He lost the presidency of the United States by a hair's breadth, he lost the governorship of New York, he lost, he lost, he lost?finally even the use of his limbs. But he enjoyed it all, because life was his game...