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...cotton planter named Murray Forbes Smith at Mobile, was born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...purely Scottish blood, Bruce Lockhart eschewed English universities, finished his education in France and Germany, then went to Malaya as a rubber planter. There he achieved sufficient fame as a footballer, too much notoriety when he took native royalty for a mistress. Timely malaria got him out of that scrape, sent him home to his outraged family. For lack of something better to do he took the examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked...
Fearless son of a rich Brazil coffee-planter and engineer, he inherited and indulged a mechanical bent. At 10 he drove a Baldwin locomotive in his father's private railway. That year he saw a balloon ascension at a Sao Paulo fair. Sent to Paris at 18 to finish his education, he had his first balloon ascent at 24 with Machuron, designer of Explorer Salomon Auguste Andree's famed balloon. Straightway he began fiddling with lighter-than-air craft, built ten airships of which No 6 won the 100,000-franc Deutsche prize for the first flight around...
When I have read it, my copy goes into the Mess anteroom where it is read and enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...
Dangerous Corner (by John Boynton Priestley; Harry Moses, producer) reminds the spectator of the old joke in which a Southern planter, returning home, is first informed that his dog Towser has died. By a slow process of revelation he subsequently learns that his stables, house and mother-in-law have been burned up, his wife run away with a drummer. Author Priestley's play presents the most complicated plot in town. A loves B who loves C who loves D, who has been found dead. Little by little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what...