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...Duke's hostess is beauteous onetime Miss Catharine Wolff of Philadelphia, rated "one of the 20 best-dressed women in the world." She was Protestant with her first husband (a Mr. Spotswood), Roman Catholic with her second (an Austrian count), and espoused the Jewish persuasion to marry her present Rothschild. Queen Victoria piously claimed that the British Royal Family are descended from Biblical David, "King of the Jews," and it was this which caused "David" to be made not only one of the names of Edward VIII but the name by which his family always called...
...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
...linked with the first college hall, built in 1697. Whether or not the designer of London's St. Paul's did send over a drawing, this hall went up in flames in 1705. Most likely the new building to replace it was "contrived by the ingenious direction of Governor Spotswood," as reported. And in another devastating fire during the Civil War, only its walls were left standing...