Word: grosvenors
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...committee for last week's celebration foretold the distinction that will attach to the ceremony in December. There were Senator Carter Glass of Virginia (toastmaster), Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Chief Justice William H. Taft, Chinese Minister Dr. Alfred Sze, Representative Theodore E. Burton and Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, head of the National Geographic Society. Other U. S. notables whose undergraduate studies or mature achievements have won them membership in P. B. K.: John W. Davis, Charles E. Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Pupin, Owen D. Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis D. Brandeis, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert...
Last week Death, enemy of elegance, marched up the dark oak stairs of a house in Grosvenor Square, London, and snuffed out the breath of an old gentleman who lay in bed there, his bleak face upturned to the ceiling. Next day The New York Times published his picture: "Lord Ribblesdale, husband of the late John Jacob Aster's first wife, who died yesterday...
...newspapers stating that Sir Thomas Beecham would not be responsible for his wife's debts. Last week, Lady Beecham, who was former Utica Welles of Newark, N. J., applied unsuccessfully to restrain her husband from so advertising. She admitted that she had taken a lease of No. 15 Grosvenor Square, but was surprised to find that Sir Thomas had also rented a nearby house "for a lady,'' reputed to be Lady Cunard,* former Maude Alice Burke of Manhattan...
Divorced. Hugh Richard Arthur 'Grosvenor, second Duke of Westminster, by Violet Mary Geraldine, Duchess of Westminster; in London. She charged infidelity, named one Mrs. Crosbie as corespondent. His first wife, Constance Edwina, Duchess of Westminster, now the wife of Capt. James F. Lewis, divorced him in 1919. Since both divorced him, both can retain the title Duchess of Westminster...
...just been published by the George H. Doran Co.* Her story is entertainingly told and charmingly illustrated. Almost simultaneously, there is announced the sale of a picture of Nell, an authenticated painting from the brush of Sir Peter Lely, chief court painter to Charles II. It was sold by Grosvenor Clarkson to Mary Coleman, Inc., and shows little Nell, as Venus, reposing naked on colored silk draperies, a cupid by her side. Her eyes and hair are brown, her lips ripely red, her flesh tones soft and warm...