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...mind with its eagerness to disclose whatever trifles it may contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink, and Sleep too much to keep their minds active or their, bodies healthy." If such iconoclasms on Carelessness...
...young naval officer. They said that, intellectually inclined, she is much more interested in reading U. S. and British books and magazines, in search for ideas, and was the last girl in the world to lose her head in such temperamental fashion. Finally, they were unanimous in flaying the gossip mongers who had so flagrantly circulated what they termed "purient nonsense...
...book it is pleasant enough reading. There is the hardworking editor of the Banner, very devoted to his wife. Her uncle owns the Banner and of course she has the money. A dark, handsome chap, her childhood lover, appears suddenly, conducts himself in a manner to provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material for occasional "cat fests...
...Russia, and her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis, had hemophilia as Crown Prince Alfonso has. Also Queen Victoria of Spain's two brothers were both delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England) is alive. Gossip in Europe says that the healthy members of King Alfonso's family are his two daughters, and that the eldest one, the Infanta Beatriz, has inherited Alfonso's clever brains also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like...
John Paul cruised in southern seas, beat a mutinous sailor who later died. A murderer by gossip, John Paul finally set his course northward, took Jones for a last name and came to North America. In 1776 he was made a Captain in command of a flagship. A narrow elegant figure, he stood on the bridge of this vessel and set out to make the world ring with his name...