Word: curzon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold Nicolson tells the story of Arketall, Lord Curzon's famous valet, who was unreasonably fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting...
Died. Horace Kent Tenney, 73, Chicago lawyer (Tenney, Harding, Sherman & Rogers); of heart disease; in Winnetka, Ill. Famed cases: representing four Manhattan banks v. the Insull utility companies (lost, appealed, won), the children of the late Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter) to remove Joseph Leiter as trustee of Levi Leiter's estate (lost), the Chicago Tribune v. Henry Ford in Ford's suit for libel (award...
...father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (another sister, who died in 1906, was the wife of the late great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India) brought suit to have him removed as trustee of the family's estate. She charged mismanagement and incompetency. After eight years' litigation, the suit was decided in Joseph Leiter's favor. Famed were his wine cellars, his race horses. Once he wrote a cook book, had it privately printed...
...monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame; a summary of now familiar facts about Siam's royalty. The American Weekly of the same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with brilliant illustrations; "Mystery of American Lady Curzon's Vanished Millions." "Still Another 'Betty Coed' Tragedy"; 'Judas the Hero of a Play That Has Startled London"; "Lacquered Hair Women's Newest Freak Fashion"; "Contradictions of Nature Which Puzzle Science"; "Real Nightmare Pictures Painted While She 'Dreams...
...Cumberland mines which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama) went into bankruptcy in London...