Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kindly have my name withdrawn from your subscription list...
...Were diverted by a tale of a drunken fisherman at an English seaside, resort who successfully sued for libel an authoress who had described a drunken fisherman of that resort in one of her novels without so much as mentioning his name. Lord Gorrell told the story, attached to it a moral in the shape of a bill to protect writers from such obviously "put up" libel suits. Sharply criticised, he withdrew the measure for revision...
...past 28, and have considerable knowledge of the world, you will, I trust, allow me to use my own discretion in matters of this kind." To Edward VII (Prince of Wales, just before the christening of her grandson, now George V): "I cannot admire the names you propose to give the baby. I had hoped for some fine old name. . . . George only came over with the Hanoverian family...
Some weeks ago a plump little man entered the office of the U. S. Consul at Melbourne, Australia. Said he: "I am about to portray the role of Abraham Lincoln in Mr. Drinkwater's play of that name, which we are shortly to produce at the Melbourne Repertory Theatre. May I ask your advice as to the playing of the role...
Maria del Pilar. In 1870 the Countess Muguiro gave birth to a child who became the only daughter and heiress of the exceedingly wealthy Spanish Count of that name. When she was 16, Maria del Pilar was married morganatically to Prince Francis de Bourbon. Almost simultaneously she met the enigmatic Zaharoff, who "has never made any man his friend, although he developed a fondness for Lloyd George during the War, and can very well endure Clemenceau...