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...until the 14th jump, it looked as if Monaveen might be the first royal horse to win since the Prince of Wales's (later King Edward VII) Ambush II in 1900. At the first barrier, six horses had gone down in a thundering crash, and Monaveen was up with the leaders. One more went down at the second, four more at the dreaded Becher's Brook. Monaveen stayed in the lead. Then his foreleg nicked the 14th fence. On the second time around the grueling 4½-mile course, Monaveen stumbled again...
When the old master died, Leach became, in effect, Kenzan VII. "I exhibited a few pots with my paintings. All the pots were sold. So I said, 'What ho!' " After that he went completely to pots...
Presidents Grant, McKinley and Garfield slept in 1350's beds, ate off its golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...
...trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...
...knew the combat records of the members of the J.C.S.: himself, General Hoyt Vandenberg, who had commanded the Ninth Air Force in Europe, the Army's General J. Lawton Collins, who had commanded the VII Corps at Normandy. Then he got in a low blow: "I was not associated with Admiral Denfeld during the war. I am not familiar with his experiences . . . [Denfeld, by order of his superiors, spent most of the war in Washington as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel]. Undoubtedly it was because of this record that he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations...