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...last week at York Cottage, set off on foot across the fields to Sandringham. "By rights," Sandringham, the Norfolk country seat of British royalty, should have passed to the present sovereigns upon their accession (1910). As a matter of record, the late Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra (TIME, Nov. 30) clung so tenaciously to what she deemed her ipso facto rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born...
...wealth of Cornelius I clung to the family through the generations, but Vanderbilt skill and dominance seems to have thinned. Here begins the story of Cornelius IV, fifth in the line of primogeniture. A chubby-featured boy with crisp curly hair, some thought they could discern in him an underlying physical frailty. He went to St. Paul's school with other sons of wealth. He got his higher education at Harstrom's Tutoring School. He went to France during the War in the Ambulance Service and was gassed, decorated...
Full Stop. A few hours later the storm burst at a secret session of the Council. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco announced his original stand once more and clung to it. An informal caucus of the delegates of nine Latin American nations twice met and twice repudiated the declaration of Senhor Franco that Brazil was only holding firm in the interest of all Latin America...
...social ravens who uttered these prophecies recalled that, upon the death of King Edward, Alexandra had been with difficulty persuaded to abandon Buckingham Palace. She clung with all the force of an indomitable will to the style and title of "Queen" (TIME, Nov. 30), and by way of "compromise" at length possessed herself of Marlborough House, where she had resided as Princess of Wales. The present Prince of Wales, gossips opined, might "like it or lump...
...Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July...