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...worst of this trip," said Lady Maud, "is going to be that we shall have to get up so early every morning to catch the plane...
...Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...
...Queen and I wish you and Lady Maud bon voyage, a successful journey, and a safe return home...
...gamut of organizations is matched by an equal variety of women leaders-leaders of political causes, such as Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie...
...monarch who may thus shortly reign over a large part of the two extremities of the globe is the second son of King Frederick VIII and brother of Christian X of Denmark. In 1896 King Edward VII of Britain prudently caused the marriage of his third daughter, Maud, to Haakon, then Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name of the long extinct Norwegian...