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Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
Adam, Biblical father of the human race, was called "that weakling," and Mother Eve "an angel," last week at Belfast, Ireland, by their suppositious descendant Viscountess Astor, famed "First Woman M. P." tireless exhalter of women over...
...crowd both smart and representative of all the provinces of Canada made the merry best of a damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...
...from his ride. They were assembled with a guide-lecturer who was, for once, not lecturing. Popeyed, they watched a lad of four years parade about the Castle courtyard shouldering a toy wooden gun. He, whispered the lecturer, was George Henry Hubert Las-celles, eldest son of Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, and eldest grandson of the King-Emperor. While Master Hubert strutted, His Majesty descended from his mare and passed unnoticed within...
...guide the Virginia venture, among them Governors Byrd of Virginia and Ritchie of Maryland, Presidents Butler of Columbia University and Chase of the University of North Carolina, Senators Couzens of Michigan and Glass of Virginia, Editors Freeman of the Richmond News-Leader and Fishburne of the Roanoke Times; and Viscountess Astor, British M. P., vivacious daughter of the old Virginia aristocracy...