Word: melton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales: "Mrs. Keld Fenwick (once lurid U. S. actress 'Peggy Marsh'),† the Jewish Belgian billionaire Capt. Alfred Lowenstein and myself hunted with a party last week in my favorite haunt, the Melton Mowbray district. Suddenly Captain Lowenstein's horse bolted, throwing him. Peggy Marsh and I spurred after the beast, which I captured. Captain Lowenstein got up uninjured. At present he is being sued by a French doorman whom he hit in the jaw (TIME, Nov. 8), and two French detectives are in Manhattan tracing $600,000 worth of gems of which his wife...
Princes Busy. Edward of Wales bestirred himself last week at his Melton Mowbray hunting lodge, patted and inspected his 15 hunters, now being groomed and conditioned for the approaching season...
Died. Dr. William D. Melton, 58, President of the University of South Carolina, influential Presbyterian; at Columbia...
...bruised arm and side in such a way as to prevent strain upon his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8). Since the bandage would have made it awkward for him to attend the King in full court regalia (see "Parliament Opens") he slipped off to his hunting centre at Melton Mowbray and amused himself among the peasantry on his estates...
...Duke of Rutland rode up. Eventually the little that could be done was done. The Prince caught the night express to London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched...