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Those receiving commissions as Ensigns are: Frederick Stevens Allen, Robert Somers Brookings H, Donald Albert Crafts, Laurens Davis Dawes, David Clapp Drinkwater, George Thomas Dudman, Benjamin Sturtavant Foss, Jr., Donald Howes Gleason, Richard Lagraze, John Nowell Murphy, Grosvenor Proctor, Franklin Augustus Rooce, Jr., Henry Seabury Parker, Jr., John Faunco Roach, Warren Batcheller Stetson, Richard King Thorndike, Jr., Seton Sawyer Williams, Norman Leslie Yood, and Elwood Dadmun Hoynton...
...they know, has no views on foreign affairs, many on dancing at swank night clubs, tennis playing, and fancy figure skating, a pastime which he pursues in skin-tight black professional figure-skater costume not only at St. Moritz in winter but in London at all seasons on socialite Grosvenor House's rink...
...reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria (in Tanganyika Territory, which Premier Hertzog of the Union...
...booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
...like an honest fellow. He is friend to many a British pacifist yet he believes in what he calls "the eternal sacrament of war." In his career, he goes slowly and prudently, saves all his violent and romantic impulses for his books. He married a daughter of the rich Grosvenor clan, the Duke of Westminster's second cousin once removed...