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...gentleman who only jumped hedges Viceroy Curzon then wrote a letter, offering to sell him 60 horses, six state landaus and other equipment of the Viceregal stables at extortionate prices. This was followed by a curt Curzon cable: unless Lord Minto accepted the terms by return cable Curzon would sell everything privately. From her husband's diary of that date Lady Minto quotes...
...apologies for that dazzling snob the late Lord Curzon there is no end.* Last week, however, the Dowager Countess of Minto, whose husband was Curzon's immediate successor as Viceroy of India, released memoirs in which she raked Curzon of Kedleston as only an outraged peeress can without breach of taste...
Like the Royal Family, the Mintos are horsy people. Lady Minto records with quivering indignation that, when Curzon was told of her husband's appointment as Viceroy of India, he observed, "Imagine sending to succeed me a gentleman who only jumps hedges...
Last week a tip along England's grapevine telegraph sent a cable hurrying to Manhattan. New York police wired Boston port officials. Scotland Yard had heard that the Lady of Minto had been, was being, or would be, smuggled into the U. S. via Boston...
...cosmopolite, a socialite, an aristocrat. He steals only valuable and famed paintings. He filches mainly during socialite functions. Garden parties are his forte. He made off with a Van Dyck-Feddinand the Cardinal-while guests of Lord Clarendon gossiped over their cups on the lawn. At the Earl of Minto's home, besides the Reynolds, he helped himself to $100.000 worth of the Countess of Minto's jewels...