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...might have stepped out of the frame Of the portrait of the most handsome courtier who ever graced the court of a queen." Thus has Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden described the Empire's most important bachelor, potent patrician Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...Keystone Patrician in Service. The biggest plane in this country is the Keystone Patrician, an 18 passenger. This spring it hopped between the coasts and borders, proving its stamina in all sorts of weather. Last week it went into its first regular passenger service, on the Colonial Airways New York-Boston run. Fare...
...Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...
...women in the church since they have it in the state?" Better than anything else, though she once was a golf enthusiast at Englewood, N. ]., she loves motoring. To many a church meeting she drives with cautious but considerable speed in her Franklin automobile. Miss Margaret Hodge has the patrician quietude often associated with the aristocracy of her native city, Philadelphia. She, too, drives, but, instead of a Franklin, she steers a Ford, and "not a new-fangled geared Ford." Two years ago she slipped on some ice, broke her hip. It was during her convalescence in a Chestnut Hill...
...years ago he contracted consumption. That dignified patrician, Sculptor George Grey Bernard, received the invalid into his studio and there he stayed for six months. Later he went to a hospital. At the end of a year, Sculptor Barnard took him back to the studio, where, last week, he died...