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Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
Many a British editor hailed the dole last week as the one factor which has kept Briton from social revolution during the present trying strike period...
...everyone knows, was half-brother to General von Bissing, notorious German Military Governor-General of Belgium during a part of the World War. Though Baron von Bissing was a naturalized Englishman and professed detestation for General von Bissing's tyranny over Belgium, he was suspected by many a Briton of being "German at the core," and was interned during the World War. How unjustified were these suspicions was revealed last week when a certain clause in his will revealed...
...importance of this work was paramount. Only one other Briton eclipsed her achievements- Colonel Thomas Lawrence. They worked by similar means, both possessing an uncanny power of winning the confidence and loyalty of Arabians. The cash value of their services was set at $750,000 by the Turkish Empire which publicly offered that sum for their heads...
This summer, Carl Maria von Weber has been dead a hundred years, but his name is much remembered. "There never was a more German composer than thou . . . The Briton does thee justice, the Frenchmen admires thee, but only the German loves thee."* In Germany, they are talking, singing, playing, reading Weber. Even during his lifetime, he and Bethovenšwere Germany's most popular composers. Weber's melodious songs influenced Wagner and his polonaises inspired Chopin...