Word: sussex
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...married Eunice McIntyre, whom he had met during his Australian prospecting days. They built a modern palace on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, bought show places at Bar Harbor and Palm Beach, a house in London and a shooting box in Sussex. There were five children. Their 18-year-old daughter Nancy eloped last year with Alfred de Marigny, a slick weekend guest. Sir Harry did not approve...
Died. Major Leonard Darwin, 93, eugenist, last surviving son of Charles Darwin's five; in Forest Row, Sussex, England. Onetime member of Parliament (1892-95), president of the Royal Geographical Society (1908-11), the Eugenics Education Society (1911-28), he energetically plumped for eugenic reforms, which he saw as Western civilization's safeguard against "slow and gradual decay." He also devoted himself to correcting misconceptions about his famed father, a windmill-tilting job. In 1934 he commented: "As I grow older, my faith in the veracity of mankind gets steadily less & less, and now, in my 85th year...
...Websters' junket was a series of parties. In London they dined with young Queen Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who insisted on giving Mrs. Webster a prize strawberry "from his own plate." Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined." The Queen gave them "a superb dinner" served on gold & silver plates. Mrs. Webster could not resist washing her hands in the ladies' room "to show that I knew the use of the scented water and napkins...
After the war Felix Lloyd Powell wrote other tunes, which were never very popular. He got into real estate in the town of Peacehaven on the Sussex Coast, became the vice chairman of the Piddinghoe Parish Council, was embroiled in a campaign to change Peacehaven's name to Southcliffe. When World War II came, 53-year-old Felix Lloyd Powell joined the Home Guard. Last year he tried his hand at composition again, wrote a song called Home Guards on Patrol. One stanza went...
Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called "The Soldier Prince," entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary...