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That he and his Queen were really welcome there was no doubt. Thunderous cheers went up as the royal party climbed into an open carriage, moved off down Edinburgh's famed Princes Street, with its swank shops on one side and luxurious gardens on the other. Scotland's premier peer, the Duke of Atholl, the only peer in Britain entitled to own a private army, led the way at the head of a troop of Scottish Horse on shaggy Highland ponies. The joggling troops wore the same khaki uniforms, slouch hats and black cocks' feathers worn...
...York's Rikers Island jail 44-year-old Socialite Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte visited her husband, 30-year-old onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte. Haled into court to answer a three-year-old speeding charge by police who arrested him while he was tinkering his swank racing car at Roosevelt Raceway, he had received a severe judicial reprimand, a sentence of five days which he spent washing windows...
...King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald was only serving up the sort of dish scores of swank Britons pass around their teatables. "Indeed it is a fact," sniffed the Garter King of Arms, with stinging implication, "that less time was allowed for funeral arrangements to be made [for George V] than ever before...
...hand for the most orderly election in exuberant Free State history was foot-weary Alfred Emanuel Smith, whose first European ramble has left behind such anomalies as that swank Rome dance bands are still being asked by Italian socialites to play The Sidewalks of New York. On the sidewalks of Dublin last week Mr. Smith remarked to reporters how calm the polling seemed, came away from a big de Valera political rally to exclaim: "It was almost as unanimous as a Tammany meeting...
European auctioneers are hardened to the sad relics of royalty, but not once in a decade does one preside at an occasion so splendidly sentimental as that which drew a swank crowd of Londoners last week to Sotheby's auction rooms in Bond Street. Cherished by four generations of the House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess...