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...heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without first asking the consent of the reigning monarch...
Feelers were also sent to the Cumberland Presbyterians (75,000 members), the Reformed Church in America (200,000), and the 225,000 United Presbyterians. Said 54-year-old Moderator Barbour: "It is my hope and prayer [that] one great Presbyterian Church will be created...
...been known for outspoken editorials on politics. But no one ever doubted where Uncle Tom stood on conservation, good will toward Latin America, snakes (he was a live-&-let-live man), or steel traps (he thought them inhumane). His most famous campaign was a five-year struggle which saved Cumberland Falls from a utilities syndicate headed by Sam Insull...
During the summer the 80-room Cumberland Castle in Salzburg, Austria is an intellectual center for European graduate study of Americans, but the winter months find it reconverted into a rest and rehabilitation foundation...
...owns, operates and provides much of the food for 250 teashops in England, four huge restaurants (Corner Houses), London's famed Trocadero Restaurant and three of London's largest hotels (the 1,000-room Cumberland, the goo-room Regent Palace, the goo-room Strand Palace...