Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had a bad automobile accident, suffered the loss of his left eye. Light-hearted despite this, he still rides and drives his car, plays his "fair" game of golf. In Washington the Szechenyis take their social and diplomatic duties most seriously...
...diplomats thus left behind wondered to themselves just why the founding fathers had ever placed a world capital on the steaming mudbanks of the Potomac. Washington's summer heat is notorious, despite the editorial efforts of the Evening Star to find a "refreshing quality" in the atmosphere and to deflect the attention of sweltering readers to the more pitiful conditions at Phoenix, Ariz and Hades...
...Judd had been in Hawaiian service one year when the British ship Carysfort, Captain George Paulet commanding, sailed into Honolulu Harbor, prepared to take possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu...
With Prof. Brown nominated, the Republicans proceeded to clinch the alliance by naming R. Walter Dickenson, an old-line Republican, for Lieutenant Governor. The anti-Smith Democrats were expected to adhere to this candidacy immediately, having left the second place on their ticket open for that purpose...
Aged 64, Chief Constable Wensley has been on the Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found...