Word: queenborough
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Like most Glasgow novels, this one is laid in Queenborough, the imaginary Virginia town which she had made as much her literary province as Hardy made Wessex or Trollope Barsetshire. It is the story of the ineffectualness of a Southern aristocrat, Asa Timberlake, who has lost his money but not his manners. The Timberlake fortune had been invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed...
...Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget's father. Lord Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. John Hay ("Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than...
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