Word: kiplingisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Elsie Kipling, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to one Captain George Bambridge, British diplomatic attache at Brussels; in London. Mr. Kipling gave his daughter away. The reception took place at the home of Stanley Baldwin, onetime Prime Minister, cousin of Mr. Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling: "I wrote an inscription and epitaph for a monument which the town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is erecting to the 350 men from that place who fell in the War. My contribution concluded: "From little towns in a far land we came
Engaged. Miss Elsie Kipling, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, famed British author, to Captain George Bambridge, M.C., Attache to the British Embassy in Madrid.
The order of the speakers for this evening was determined by lot, and is as follows: "Pass Prosperity Around" A. J. Beveridge Fred Ashton Videon '25 "Call to Arms and Liberty or Death" Patrick Henry Joseph Fisher '24 "Speech at the Funeral of a Brother" Robert Ingersoll James Harry Smith...
At an autograph sale in Paris, it became known that Premier Poincare had signed his name so often during his 63 years that his autographs would not fetch as much as $2 apiece. Benito Mussolini's signature, however, fetched almost $6, while Kipling's brought nearly as much as Napoleon...