Word: coldstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band of the Coldstream Guards; it can arrange a 1,000-guest party or a richly refined funeral. The store's export department, which grossed over $7 million last year, has sent gooseberries to Saudi Arabia, fresh flowers for a wedding in Nigeria and smoked kippers to a homesick Englishman in Ceylon...
...such diverse cases as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (obscenity) and Randolph Churchill (libel). He is a dedicated crusader against capital punishment. Son of a British shipping magnate and a German baroness, he is an unlikely Laborite who served for a time in the Coldstream Guards. As a young man he was so elegant and ennuied that his friends organized a group known as S.R.G.G.H. (Society for the Ruffling of Gerald Gardiner's Hair...
Married. Durie Desloge, 22, daughter of Palm Beach Socialite Durie Desloge Shevlin; and Roderic Iain Bullough, 28, London blueblood, Oxonian, former Coldstream Guardsman; in Manhattan...
...went to Miss Hewitt's in Manhattan, 1'Academie Maxim's and the Sorbonne in Paris-and debuted at Newport in 1960. He went to the Royal Naval College, Oxford's Brasenose College, and was a Coldstream Guardsman. Now that, as they say in the set, is "the right sort," and everyone was delighted that pretty Durie Desloge, 22, will marry Briton Roderic lain Bullough, 28, in late May. The couple met in Bangkok last summer, and right now they are in Palm Beach visiting her mother, Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin, who hit the prints...
...battle of Flodden Field, which was fought within sight of the Homes' front lawn at Coldstream, Archibald, 5th Earl of Douglas, otherwise known as Bell-the-Cat, and the 3rd Lord Home both fought the Sassenach. Home tried to rally his followers against the English longbowmen. "A Home! A Home!" he cried. But his men-or so legend has it-misunderstood his order and trotted off home. It was then that the family decided to avert future disasters by pronouncing the name "Hume...