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...inhabitants of the island, moreover, failed to see any reason why funds should be raised to fight a disease which is all but unknown here. The Presidential birthday was, therefore, the pretense rather than the motive of the customary week-end fun at swank El Escambron Beach Club and Condado Beer Garden...
...certain suspicion and disdain. Socially ambitious, he has never been accepted in Washington society's inner circle. But many a Washingtonian, including members of the Gridiron Club whom he entertains every year, is glad to attend the large and elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts of English and U. S. literary works. Last week he acquired...
...first husband who is today Commander E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N. Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...
...first job brought him $4 a week from a Philadelphia chandelier factory. Not long after that he was doing sketches for the old New York World. Fifty-one times he dragged his heavy portfolio of pictures in vain to swank Harper's Weekly to get a job; on the 52nd visit he succeeded with a winter scene of opera crowds streaming out of the Metropolitan which he had painted over night...
...aristocratic relatives followed the sealed black coffin across Berlin's swank Kaiserwilhelm Cemetery. The grave had been dug next to the mausoleum of the family of a distant relative, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the ace of aces of Imperial Germany. Though there is generally no parson at such funerals, a Protestant pastor was permitted to officiate. Meanwhile all Berlin gaped at scarlet and black posters stuck up everywhere in which Adolf Hitler pointedly emphasized the obvious fact that he had refused to save from beheading Baroness von Falkenhayn and the other beauteous spy who was beheaded with her, aristocratic...