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Ango then accepts the captaincy of a tramp steamer and, accompanied by his daughter, goes to Southampton, its port of departure. While there, he visits the room in the Reindeer Hotel, where he said goodby to Blacky I twenty years before. He plays the old music box, which she was so fond of, and pays old George five pounds, the result of a bet that Ango would never return to Southampton. A few minutes after he leaves the hotel, the audience hears the steamship whistle and knows that Waverly Ango is aboard, atoning for his past indiscretions by sailing straighter...
...plan to come to America in search of a wealthy wife. The Daily News, tabloid newspaper of Manhattan, was bold enough to nominate various candidates for my hand. First, Miss Millicent Rogers, who ' despite her industrial wealth does not look like an American. . . . When she appeared at the Southampton Street Fair ... in a hindu costume. . . .' Secondly, Miss Abby Rockefeller, 'pretty granddaughter of the oil emperor,' who is 'well chaperoned by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' Thirdly, Miss Alice De Lamar, late mine operator's daughter, ' worth...
Professor Lake was born in Southampton, England, and received his Bachelor's degree at Oxford in 1895, and his Master's degree in 1897. He was curate in Durham and Oxford until 1904 and then became a professor at the University of Leyden in Holland. In 1914 he came to the University as professor of early Christian Literature, and was named as Winn professor of ecclesiastical history in 1919. He is vice-president of the Churchmen's Union of England...
...Southampton large crowds gathered to wish ex-Premier Lloyd George Godspeed; conspicuous among them were Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Home, Sir Hamar and Lady Greenwood, General Smuts. At times the crowd could not contain its enthusiasm, several ladies broke loose and kissed him, the rest of the crowd succumbed to the leadership of the Rev. J. H. Shakespeare (one of the chiefs of the British Noncomformists), who called for hearty cheering, which ended in singing For He's a Jolly Food Fellow. To his adherents Mr. George said: " Look after the old country while I am gone...
World's records for distance and endurance were set when the French dirigible Dixmude soared uninterruptedly for 118 hrs., 41 min. over 4,500 miles of Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean. The distance: from San Francisco to New York and half way back; from Boston to Southampton and thence to Gibraltar...