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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...
...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...
...always loved sea ways, and had come to know them through years in the mercantile marine service, had just returned from Antarctica with Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901. The couple went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Mrs. Shackleton knew many important people. Among her friends was the Earl of Rosebery, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister (1894-95). Four years after the marriage, Explorer Shackleton turned again toward the South Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after having been within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight...
...Earl Sande, premier U. S. jockey, made his debut as a professional tenor at the Kiwanis Club of Alexandria, Va., sang "Mother Machree" and "Bird Songs at Eventide." Asked after the performance how he had felt, said he: "Well, I was kinda nervous...
Divorced. William Earl Dodge Stokes Jr., Manhattan socialite; from Mrs. Florence Crittenton Stokes. Charge: insanity...