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...Continued tranquil, utterly unstirred by tidings that the Sixth Earl Winterton had just been slapped in the face in the House of Commons by crippled Laborite Charles James Simmons and later challenged to duel...
Reason for Their Lordships' apathy: Lord Winterton is not one of them, but an Irish peer, and moreover a Conservative...
...struck me lightly with the order paper," said Earl Winterton later of Mr. Simmons. "I most certainly had not provoked this enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Snowden by any allusion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'an insulting dog.' I cannot recollect ever using such a term in relation to a human.* It is quite true that I have since been challenged to a duel, but I decline to say by whom...
...thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English youth, to the great...
...Lord Winterton made a few curt remarks about defiance of the Speaker's ruling...