Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Absolute rest until just before the Jubilee was the physicians' prescription. Where to get it? Since George V is adamant in his yearly decision ("I will not go to the French Riviera or anywhere outside of England"), Their Majesties graciously accepted last week the loan of an English mansion, no palace, from the Duke of Devonshire whose wife is Queen Mary's Mistress of the Robes...
...That the mansion, Compton Place near Brighton, has even one bathroom is amazing considering the early Victorian tastes of the Duke of Devonshire who has called such modernities as motor cars "foul, stinking things, horrible brutes making life hideous!" On a recent visit to London, His Grace congratulated himself that "I was able to find a hansom...
...Yale '28, once "in Wall Street," now lives in Tucson, Ariz. (because of a sinus infection). Grant. 25, Princeton '31, is a Cornell Medical senior. In 1922 Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger married James Noah Henry Slee, onetime president of 3-in-1 Oil Co. They have a mansion at the edge of a lake near Fishkill, N. Y. Ordinarily she prefers to be called Margaret Sanger, the name which has become the symbol of Birth Control...
...recitals was in Manhattan last week, when pure German Lieder brought an uproar of applause. Lotte Lehmann's next stop was Detroit where she sang over the radio on the Ford Symphony Hour. She hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin, her first Metropolitan Elsa. Next week to benefit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies she will enact the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier...
...That's truer than Gospel," said the onetime National City Bank chairman last week. "Like every one else, I presume, I have cut down on club memberships very markedly.'' Lately he has been living at his mansion in Tuxedo, N. Y., and staying a few nights a week in Manhattan at the Hotel Plaza with his daughter. "I've said right along-and I honestly mean it -that if I could go on and attend to my own living with my name never in the Press again, it would be Santa Claus...