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Engaged. Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon, 21, youngest daughter of the late Lord Curzon, onetime (1899-1905) Viceroy of India, and his first wife, Mary Leiter of Washington, D. C., to Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, equerry of Edward of Wales. Major Metcalfe first met Wales when the latter was touring India in 1922. Edward, impressed with Metcalfe's knowledge of horses, insisted on his becoming a member of his personal staff...
This book contains four long poems, Dionysus in Doubt, Genevieve and Alexandra, Mortmain, Demos and Dionysus, elaborate philosophic acros tics, graphs of spiritual collisions; many sonnets, some like a goldsmith's gargoyles, precise in horror, some mere laconic footnotes to metaphysical debate, some that are compressed short stories...
Married. Miss Alexandra W. Stirling, sometime (1916, 1919, 1920) National Women's Golf Champion, to Dr. Wilbert G. Fraser of Canada; in Atlanta...
...newspaper report ignorantly inferred that Queen Mother Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, had started a veil craze by allowing the publication of a photograph which shows her wearing a veil with her toque. Her Majesty has long worn a veil, as most good Victorians did, and has not infrequently been photographed in one. The new veils, continued the newspaper, are "of the harem variety, covering only the eyes." In point of fact, veils worn by harem ladies cover the face from the eyes downward...
Engaged. Miss Alexandra Stirling, of Atlanta, Ga., three times (1916, 1919, 1920) women's national (amateur) golf champion of the U. S., to one Dr. Wilbert G. Frasier of Ottawa, Canada...