Word: kinnaird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears the title of Lady Elizabeth Kinnaird) or sheer absentmindedness, Author Eliot keeps drifting away from her subject-how a parcel of status-seeking mammas, nouveau riche papas, dutiful daughters and out-of-pocket noblemen staged the great white fortune hunt, or coronet safari, of the late 19th century...
...confident that such an unfortunate event will not happen, for the fine and critical eyes of our Housemasters are looking over the future of the young and unborn. It is in praise of our House-masters that I felt compelled to communicate my thought. Gavin Scott, 117 Kinnaird Street...