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...Viceroy. As the son and heir of the aged Viscount Halifax (87-year-old Groom of the Bedchamber to Edward of Wales), Mr. E. F. L. Wood has need of his interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles...
...iniquities of the laissez faire system by reference to former conditions in English factories and American railways but they forget to mention former marriage conditions in the Caucasus. To buy a wife was then a costly proposition, for besides paying a heavy sum to the bride's father, the groom was obliged to entertain the whole village lavishly on the day of his betrothal. To the poorer tribesman, therefore, stealing or kidnapping brides became almost obligatory, a practice which often led to blood feuds between the families of bride and kidnapper. So much for the evils of laissez faire; government...
...Edward of Wales and his brother Albert of York cantered ahunting near Melton Mowbray last week, a horse escaped from one of the grooms and bolted in their direction. Tossing the reins of his own mount to his brother, Edward dismounted and attempted to seize the bridle of the escaped horse. The horse escaped still farther?over a fence. Undaunted, the Prince climbed carefully over a locked gate and seized the bridle of the now apparently docile runaway. By that time the disgruntled groom who had let it get away from him in the first place had ridden up. Edward...
...London it was announced that the Right Honorable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, M. P., only son of Lord Halifax (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales) has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed Lord Reading upon the latter's announced retirement next April...
There Lou left him. with the little Welsh groom whose lunar spiritual isolation had mastered not only the horse but, momentarily, the stony Mrs. Witt. Lou went on, into New Mexico, with her mother and their other groom, a half-breed Navajo from Arizona. The latter, detached, impassive, had seemed more than human back in England; but here, with dusky squaws about, he could be seen as himself, stupid, ratlike, sexually predatory...