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Dino Grandi, spade-bearded Fascist delegate to the London conference, was the sensation of Mayfair drawing rooms by wearing, with formal evening dress, white collar and tie, a black shirt...
Eight months ago tart-tongued persons at Mayfair teaparties glibly quoted "Lord...
...judge, grim-lipped Sir Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...
...defense-was the fact that the first two years of the Hatry sentence must be spent at hard labor. The first two weeks of his sentence he must sleep on bare boards. For 28 days the man whose champagne suppers were the talk of Mayfair must crush rocks on the stonepile. After that he will be given the slightly less difficult task of making mail bags...
...London the delegation would be joined by its other two members, Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson. Its headquarters would be at the Ritz and the Mayfair...