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Senior Roger Howe will stroke the junior varsity again this spring, and Kinnaird Howland will...
...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...
...been bitten by a monkey. Wrote a Lucknow citizen to city authorities: "Apart from the damage monkeys cause to my garden, one attacked a small child of one of my servants and tore from its nose the nose ring." Said Dr. E. A. Douglas of Lucknow's Lady Kinnaird Hospital: "For four days in succession our hospital has been plunged in darkness and the cause of this is attributed to interference of monkeys with electric fuses. The seriousness of the situation will be appreciated when I tell you that not only is the operating theater in darkness, with...
Neutral shipping was warned last week by the British Admiralty to 'ware a vast new mine field it was laying, all the way from Kinnaird Head, on Scotland's northeast shoulder, down to join the fields laid earlier off Yorkshire and in the Dover Straits. These 500 miles of North Sea are to be sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover...