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...transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London on a visit, Sir William surprised everybody by marrying her. Though she was still not received by English society, Lady Hamilton made quite a stir among the Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled together, with freedom and zest, they had many vices and a few virtues in common." When Captain Horatio Nelson, on duty with the British Mediterranean...
...humble subject of His Majesty named T. H. L. Hony of Fowey in Cornwall was creating a well-bred little Mayfair stir last week with his "discovery" that King Edward VIII, his brothers and King George V were all born on Saturday...
...concerning consistency, "Why", he asks, "when you have avowedly come out on the side of falsehood and injustice, do you continually appeal in your column against them? Have you not averred your absolute, unalterable repugnance to intelligence, decency, honor, and morality, whose emotions alone you have attempted to stir within...
...Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State Opera. A group of New Yorkers under Ira A. Hirschmann forthwith canceled their Philharmonic subscriptions, threatened to stir up a general boycott...
...necessary. Equipped with this and launched from his 60-ft. tower, Dr. Goddard's latest model, a twelve-footer weighing 140 Ib. with fuel, has reached speeds of 700 m.p.h., heights around 7,500 ft. Its fall is protected by an automatic parachute. Dr. Goddard, who hates to stir up gaudy talk of moon flights, announces his present objective as reaching 50 miles into the stratosphere "to obtain meteorological, astronomical, magnetic and other data of altitudes greatly exceeding those which can be reached by balloon...