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...ended a career that might have been dictated by E. Phillips Oppenheim. New York first saw "Prince Edgar" nearly 40 years ago when he arrived flush with funds and cut a wide swathe through the leg o' mutton-sleeved Society of the period. He married Clare de Cosse Conger, niece of Edwin T. Conger of Ohio, onetime Minister to China. That did not last long. In 1911 Prince Edgar turned up in Vienna, but he talked too much about his relationship to the old Kaiser and was quietly ousted. By this time U. S. newspapers had it quite fixed...
Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled...
...case. A strong decision written by Justice Cardozo held that while it was legal to modify the original decree, economic conditions had not changed sufficiently to warrant it, that a modification would tend to suppress competition. The lower court was reversed, the packers ordered back to their beef, pork & mutton...
...muchly--this seems rather like breaking the hotel hoodoo--and I think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough to eat, especially with occasional wallaby gobs, or crayfish given us by Mr. Hosking, the cannery boss, not to mention mutton birds and fish; there is also a remarkably jeestly oyster on the reef to the south, which Dr. Allen and I sampled briefly yesterday...
...Jackets all lengths with some flaunting Victorian ruffled peplums and leg-of-mutton sleeves...