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...years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the chief rival claimant to leadership of U.S. (i.e., New York and Newport) society. The importance of the position she had won was fully apparent to Grace Vanderbilt. Said she on one occasion: "I feel deeply for poor dear Marie Antoinette, for if The Revolution came to America I should be the first...
...well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept...
Still to be determined, after hearings, is the amount to be given each claimant. The biggest single slice of the settlement, $716,666, will be split among some 90 lawyers who prepared the suits...
...claimant reported that the November 25th storm caused him and his wife to rescue 120 mink worth $10,000, who were drowning. The town of Shandaken reported that the cloud insemination experiments brought severe floods and property damage...
...Luckily required to speak none of the film's dialogue, the dog charms Shelley into locking Farley out of the boudoir. Whenever Farley tries to get rid of this dog in the manger by answering a newspaper ad inserted by one of the rival crooks, Farley finds the claimant murdered-and the police (William Demarest et a/.) leaping to embarrassing conclusions...