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...Wellington Koo. It is unfashionable never to have met Pao-yu Tang (not long since diplomat's lady at Washington and London) moving always among the great and in the international world of fashion, now resident in Peking with Foreign Minister Dr. Welling ton Koo, whom she has groomed with her wealth and wit into China's most famed diplomat...
Today, in Peking at the semibarbaric court of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, Mrs. Wellington Koo is par excellence the cosmopolitan aristocrat of feminine China...
...lady would have been equivalent to an unforgivable slight. . . . The captain of the Queen's Guard at St. James's Palace concluded his daily report with his signed certificate that 'no smoking had taken place in any of the rooms'. . . . The Iron Duke (of Wellington) himself declared: '. . . The practice of smoking by the use of pipes, cigars and cheroots . . . is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit...
...Russian winter of 1812, or when he took refuge in the arms of England after the loss of Waterloo. It is a matter between these rulers and their conscience whether or not it had been better for Napoleon to have blown his brains out after his defeat by Wellington or for Davis to have done the same when Richmond fell. Brave men rarely question another's courage, particularly at such a moment as the downcrash of an empire. I have known many men of moral and physical courage-but none more personally chivalrous and brave than the now exiled...
Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London...