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...good-grade Britishers know, the owner "of Elveden Hall is the luxury-loving Viscount Elveden, first Earl of Iveagh. At 78 he is one of the most notable British exponents of la chasse de luxe. His huntsmen-guests are dined wherever they chance to find themselves at mealtimes, with the aid of an especially built traveling kitchen. Throughout his almost limitless estates there are scattered more than a sufficient number of hunting lodges, at which opulent shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: George A-Visiting | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...seventh day, the "Bills"† clogged the streets with a three-hour, 40-band march, disguised as cowpunchers, Zouaves, mummers, Turks, huntsmen, sailors, golfers, "Purple Devils," mounted police, hussars, Pilgrims. Purple, the Order's official hue, rioted everywhere. Prizes were given for floats, marching, mileage, drilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Before the war Mr. Sassoon was practically unknown as a poet, but in 1918, on the publication of "The Old Huntsmen," he suddenly became known as one of England's leading young poets. The war, changing his point of view and his style effected this sudden rise to fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGFRIED SASSOON SPEAKS HERE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 | 4/6/1920 | See Source »

...this democratic sport and deplores the fact that in the past comparatively few men have participated in it. With the exception of a few awkward sentences, the language is clear and to the point. L. Grandgent's essay, "The Noble Instinct," is a skillful arraignment of the twentieth century huntsmen, without being controversial in form. It would be difficult to disprove the arguments, though more might be said in favor of the hunter. The style is in keeping with the thought, vigorous and dignified. In a "Letter from a Captain of Industry to his Literary Friend," W. M. E. Perkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monthly Reviewed by Prof. Walz | 11/5/1907 | See Source »

...plunged the "gay court" in deepest mourning. Under Carl Philipp things are more cheerful. It is a time for hunting and merry-making. A huge boar is carried triumphantly aloft in a wagon, and then a stag. Falconers ride by with hooded birds perched upon their wrists; and sturdy huntsmen follow with eager hounds in leash. Through all our vicisitudes, we have now come to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and hereafter prosperity reigns supreme. Carl Frederick of Baden, the restorer of the university, goes by amid huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. II. | 11/2/1886 | See Source »

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