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...party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked: "Is the new Prime Minister what you would call an educated...
...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...
...human blood. When work began at Agriculture's laboratory at Orlando, Fla., the lice were kept thriving on their favorite food. Hired human hosts lay face down on cots, their backs covered with lice (one young woman was able to put herself through college as this kind of hostess). Dr. E. F. Knipling finally did these people out of a job by breeding lice which could live on special rabbits...
...Turn your head and count ten," said Washington Socialite Mrs. Augusta Trimble Fletcher, as she greeted a guest in her library. The guest obeyed, then whirled at the sound of a shot. His hostess had killed herself...
...walked up to the best-looking dame in the bunch & said 'howdy?' Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time ... I inspected the gardens with another 'chawmer' & ended up by jollying the hostess herself all by her lonesome for ten minutes while a uniformed Lord stood by & never got in anything except an occasional...