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As a young man he was engaged to Lady Florence Cecilia Paget. One day, as they were on a shopping tour, she walked out of the door, slipped into a cab that the Marquis of Hastings had ready, drove directly to church, married the Marquis. About three years later, at...
The "mummified body of John Wilkes Booth," assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is advertised in a professional theatrical publication as being " for lease." The man who wants to let it is named Bates, and his address is No. 1234 Harbert Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Startled by the threatened conflict between the Producing...
We learn also from Dr. Marquis:
The Marquis Curzon in effigy was taken for an airing by the irate communists of Moscow; subsequently he was hanged. Bolshevik remarks were hurled not only at the static Curzon but also at the dynamic one in the London Foreign Office. Even Tehicherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, aristocrat though he is...
While the angry voice of Moscow is busy telling the world exactly what it thinks of this eminent British statesman, British labor of the more radical order is pouring forth its own candid thoughts on the British Foreign Secretary. Making adequate allowances for this eloquent and angry tornado of censure...