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Lady Iveagh, daughter-in-law of the late head of the Guiness Brewery, became the seventh woman member* of the present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
...England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than the mob at Margate, Blackpool, Brighton or Southend. Mr. Dowse contradicts himself when he refers to "amiable qualities" and then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism, and in any case there is nothing "false...
...World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week, puffing and panting, swimmer Norman Leslie Derham of Southend waded ashore at Dover to collect Lord Riddell's money. His time was 13 hrs.: 56 min.-35 min. faster than Miss Ederle, but 171 min. slower than Baker Michel of France. British hardihood was somewhat vindicated...
Carl Shurtz will not speak in Faneuil Hall, but only at the Tremont Temple and to the Germans at the South end. It is earnestly hoped, however, that the Cleveland men of the college will turn out and escort him from Tremont Temple to the Southend...