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...Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
Died. Mrs. Grace Woodville Read Robinson, 60, broker, member of Women's Bond Club, wife of historian James Harvey Robinson (author of The Mind in the Making, 1921) ; in Manhattan...
Divorced. By Mrs. Grace Shotwell Marson, daughter of the late Bishop Charles Sumner Burch of the N. Y. Protestant Episcopal Diocese; Captain Arnaldo Marson; in White Plains, N. Y. At the same time her son, Lyndon Walkup Burch, divorced his wife Isabelle Keyes Burch. Captain Marson, husband of Bishop Burch's daughter had eloped with Bishop Burch's granddaughter-in-law Isabelle...
...having been established that Canada is a "country"?whatever that may mean?President Coolidge was at liberty to read the King Emperor's letter: George, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, etc., to the President of the United States of America sendeth greeting...
...Davenport, Iowa, three days later, Blanche Gabathuler, 15, was reprimanded by her grandmother for singing at table instead of saying grace. She rushed from the house, flung herself under a freight train...