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...outskirts of sooty Birmingham is ivy-clad Drayton Manor, whereon a halo of fame has grown for more than a century. Drayton Manor, as all good Britishers know, was the home of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some...
...charm enough for the most difficult social encounter. "He is the only man," said one traveler, "who could be popular in Europe with a cross-eyed termagant for a wife." It happens, however, that Mr. Phillips, having reached age 32, married some years ago a Manhattan girl (Caroline Astor Drayton) whose charm matched his, and whose beauty outshone his manners...
...Cobb 82 34-44--H. L. Clarke 37 45-55--W. A. Clementson 56 DANA 1-34--M. W. Ellis 31 35-49--W. M. Dow 46 DUNSTER 14-24--G. J. Cleary 19 25-41--E. U. Denison 40 42-56--E. W. Bock 54 DRAYTON 1-11--A. D. Cassatt 7 12-21--F. A. Clieman 16 RANDOLPH 1-12--N. W. Buckler 9 13-24--B. R. Howland 20 25-36--D. T. Chamberlin 29 37-48--John DeNormandie 43 49-59--T. W. Lord Jr. 56 60-70--C. A. Allen 61 RUSSELL 1-12--Henry...
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...fabulous good fortune to hook the childish millionaire, Samuel Gummidge Bunker, after trickery at roulette had failed her. You even know that not all artists are so comparatively happy, chivalrous and well-heeled as Leslie Waldron, not all dowagers so sensible and friendly as Lady Agnes Drayton. The chances are that Author Whitlock knows too, after eight years as U. S. Minister and Ambassador to Belgium; knows so well that upon his return to novel-writing he finds it less painful, and though less truthful, more pleasing, to make a fiction of uprooted folk who either learned to flourish without...