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...each of Joyce's weekly broadcasts her superrefined Mayfair accents could be heard knowingly discussing the gay night life of Berlin and the happy lot of German womanhood as compared with that of their miserable British sisters. Then came V-E day and the end of the broadcasts...
Married. Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 26, whom newspaper gossips once nominated for Prince Consort of Britain; and Anne Cumming Bell, 21, Mayfair model daughter of a Yorkshire Army major; both for the first time; in London...
...ANGELES--Two buxom young members of the Mayfair Sewing Circle were sentenced today to a year in jail apiece for laying aside their needle work to seduce their fellow-seamstresses 'teenaged sons...
Hatry, now 56, rose from a West End clerkship to control of the Commercial Bank of London after World War I. Soon there was an un-British display of Hatry wealth: ornate bathrooms for his office suite, a swimming pool in his Mayfair home, a yacht, a racing stable. In 1924, his bank failed...
...Raphaelites (Rossetti: His Life and Works). His dislike of the modern world and his satiric discernment of the kind of people who run and ruin it became grim in Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, two wickedly witty and iridescent novels which skewered a refined rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially...