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...opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr.' To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred ... I found it in these words: 'General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government.' The language of Doctor Cooper plainly implies that he considered this opinion of you, which he attributes...
...Poorhouse." Despite their respective advantages in size and population, Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners...
...information about myself, were it not that it sounds egotistic and rather snobbish. . . . My father is Lord Carnock, one of the founders of our entente with France, a friend of King Edward. ... In 1913, I married Victoria Sackville-West, only child of Lord and Lady Sackville of Knole, Kent who has written things of greater merit than anything I have done myself...
...deposed George II ("Gorgeous Georgios") who lives in London the life of a sportsman-about-town and insists "I have never abdicated. Mark my words, I shall again be King of the Greeks." Many Greeks would prefer to see British George V's youngest son, the Duke of Kent, invited by the Athenian Parliament to become King Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week...
Meanwhile George, Duke of Kent-"P. G." to his intimates-was up and about London, reported by the Daily Express to have had "the thrill of a lifetime." This occurred when H. R. H. descended into an underground station accompanied by pompous Lord Ashfield, chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman...