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Queen Mary's stately maroon Daimler has all the old-fashioned dignity of its royal owner. One day last week both received a nasty bump. Returning from a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens with Queen Mary, Captain Lord Claude Nigel Hamilton, her controller and equerry, and Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, a woman of the bedchamber, the high old limousine was caught on the right by a truck loaded with steel, skittered sideways, struck the curbing and overturned. The occupants were tumbled among automobile cushions and flowers, and the doors jammed shut. But eyewitnesses soon unscrambled...
...Sacramento, Calif., a ring fell from the sky upon Mrs. Anna Briggs, raised a bump on her noggin. Over Sacramento in a plane, Dr. W. Stanley was frantic because the ring had been a gift from Theodore Roosevelt. To Mrs. Briggs, of whom he heard by radio, Dr. Stanley few days later gave $325 and a trip to the New York World's Fair...
...last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings that the time might come when the Army would have to "take over." General Moseley had started his own investigation of "isms" which called for considerable travel. "If the Jews bump me off," he wrote in a spirit of martyrdom to Captain Campbell, "be sure to see they get credit for it from coast to coast. It will help our cause...
...fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...