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Being a Lady, Elinor Glyn has not told everything. Locked away in her diaries, the "unvarnished truth" is still imprisoned. But in Romantic Adventure she has let out some, after giving it a ladylike shellacking. Born on the Island of Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent her early childhood in Canada in an atmosphere of "aristocratic exclusiveness" which she admits was "already nearly a century out of date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty...
...only man in Florida to drive an automobile with a green license, he has even painted the "White Horse" Scotch whiskey statue green...
...would have nothing to do with much-traveled, somewhat evasive Mr. Fingard. That clever man rented a suite of rooms in a fine West End hotel where he let friendly doctors administer treatments for as high as ?1,000 a series. As for himself, he served U. S. coffee, Scotch whiskey and English gin to all comers. Occasionally he hinted that his opposition stemmed from Lord Dawson of Penn, hinted that that eminent physician wanted a cut in this profitable medical business...
...started when a trio of students worn out with the reading period and exhilarated by a bottle of 15-year-old Scotch, so our anonymous source reports, decided to phone in to the station. "This is Roger Merriman of Cambridge," said one of them, "and I'd like to hear "I Don't want to Make History...
...abortive attempt to get "I'm An Old Cow Hand" as requested by "Frisky" was nipped in the bud by someone in the know in the station. It being after 4 o'clock at this point and the Scotch having gone the way of all good scotch, the playful fellows decided that it was time to go to bed anyway