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...When Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke became England's Secretary of State the madam of a London bawdy house exclaimed: "Five thousand a year, my girls...
...evenings to singing, which was a lucrative profession in those days. Solos at Symphony Hall and the Vice-Presidency of the Glee Club were the high-spots, and the nearest he came to performing before the crowned heads of Europe was a concert in the home of Governor-General Viscount Wellington of Canada. Apparently either no one minded his twang, or else it is a recent development...
Fearing the wrong kind of deeds, Scotland Yard strung a guard of 27 policemen around the Japanese Embassy, whose staff is awaiting exchange. After Viscount Hisaakira Kano, ex-manager of London's Yokohama Specie Bank, told a reporter the atrocity story was "so much propaganda," Scotland Yardmen bundled him off with one suitcase and a fur rug to the Isle of Man internment camp...
...Viscount's chic, young (26) wife had her troubles, too. When she appeared at Elizabeth Arden's Bond Street shop to get a shampoo and facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
...vague explanation given the public was that Editor Garvin and his employer Viscount Astor had parted company over "editorial policy." The Grand Old Man of British journalism cagily commented: "For the first time for 34 years I can take my dog for a walk on a Friday instead of staying indoors to write my article. . . ." London reports said that Garvin had quit because the Observer was being turned over to Lord Astor's son Francis David Langhorne, socialist, Laborite, ex-factory worker and now captain of Marines...