Word: mayfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London native cabaret girls are plentiful & cheap but, to pick up the imported U.S. article, choosy Englishmen must drop in at Mayfair's two new topnotch hotels, Dorchester House & Grosvenor House...
...hospital ship Maine, which was used last week by Government bigwigs & friends as a floating grandstand, the food was so abominable and the service so slow that First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell next day addressed a letter of apology to each distinguished guest. In swank Mayfair a rich young Argentine made herself obnoxious to English friends by screaming at cocktail parties, "My dears, in the crush I had a perfect piece of meat on my plate when a clutching hand came over my shoulder and seized it! Wolves-those people on the Maine were simply wolves...
...unblushing practice of "month counting" was indulged in last week by Mayfair socialites, who recalled that the Duke of Kent was married on Nov. 29, 1934, after the following discreet announcement was made at No. 3 Belgrave Square: "The Duchess of Kent has cancelled her forthcoming engagements and is not undertaking any further functions this summer...
...Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, only daughter of King George and Queen Mary. Physicians noted a toxemia which they believed due to a focal infection in her appendix. Sir Frederick Stanley Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary to the King, had a complete surgical unit set up in Princess Mary's Mayfair home, and there the following November her appendix was removed. One of the consultants in the case was Dr. Louis Francis Reobuck Knuthsen, a West Indian who achieved eminence as a London skin specialist...
...ablest jazz pianist in the British royal family is H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, known in the giddier portions of Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with...