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...nowhere in Washington was the tension more concentrated than in the pinkish-brick British Embassy that stood on its hill below the Naval Observatory. And it was concentrated there on the calm, portly, six-foot figure of the British Ambassador, Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Karr), Marquess of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle, and holder of five other hereditary titles which, come British victory or British defeat, were not likely to mean much in the future...
...little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This 57-year-old Christian Scientist, a bachelor, secretary of the Rhodes Trust since 1925. War-time secretary to David Lloyd George, and reputedly a writer of much of the Versailles Treaty, was the new British Ambassador...
Besides mentioning one of her four beaus by name (Lord Robin Innes-Ker), Mme Alda reveals that "my marriage to Gatti was frankly, on my part at least, a marriage after the European pattern; a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other. . . ." Her opinion of her successor, Dancer Rosina Galli: "Like me, she had a rather pretty face but too fat a figure." Alda declares that, when she made ready to divorce Gatti-Casazza, she was told that her contract at the Metropolitan would be allowed quietly to expire. Astute, she obtained from...
...churn my dear Grandmother had Was made of cedar wood, And many a good old fashioned rub Of soap and sand had stood. The hoops that bound it were of brass, And shone like burnished gold. Five gallons too of cream or milk, That good old churn would hold. Ker Chunk, Ker Chunk...
Married. George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, 22, 9th Duke of Roxburghe, Premier Baronet of Scotland, rich grandson of the late, rich Ogden Goelet of Newport; and Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, 20, youngest daughter of the Marquess of Crewe; in London...