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...Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...
Call Boy brought a sum on the fat side cf a quarter-million dollars to his owner, Frank Curzon, London theatrical manager, onetime actor. Another onetime roving actor, William Kilpatrick, 40, who had settled down as a dentist's assistant in Africa, held Call Boy's ticket in the Calcutta sweepstakes. It paid $814,800.* Cautious Mr. Kilpatiick had sold half of his ticket to a syndicate for $50,000, so his personal profit was only $457,400. William Jones, 60, retired clerk living peacefully at Felixtowe, won the Stock Exchange sweepstakes of $363,750 after selling three...
They entered the great Registan (Market Place) of which Lord Curzon has written: "It was originally and is still, even in its ruins, the noblest public square in the World."† The women, with faces on which an absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...
Reported Engaged. Marcella Duggan, 19, step-daughter of the late Marquess Curzon, famed British statesman; to one Edward Rice, attorney; in London. The Marchioness vehemently denied the report, but it is understood that Miss Duggan escaped from her locked bedroom and is visiting friends...
...Heard Oswald Mosley (Laborite son-in-law of arch Tory the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) demand of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain under what treaty rights British troops are being sent to Chinese soil...