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Married. Montagu Collet Norman, 61, longtime (since 1920) Governor of the Bank of England; and Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens Worsthorne, 33, divorced welfare worker, member of the London County Council, granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon; furtively, day after announcement of engagement; in London at the dingy Chelsea Registry Office...
...charged that $2.000.000 was collected on a Moose lottery, with $150,000 in prizes drawn Jan. 1 aboard the S. S. Priscilla in Long Island Sound. The Government claims evidence to prove that Senator Davis got more than $100,000 as his share of the proceeds...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...
...pirates murder all the Centaur's crew but de Bernis saves Priscilla and Major Sands by pretending she is his wife, Sands her brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat...
...group of U. S. esthetes stranded in Europe at the outbreak of the War; a trip with his wife Fania Marinoff to the Bahamas, where he saw an orgiastic revival meeting of black Holy Jumpers. Sophisticate Van Vechten wondered what Huysmans would have thought of such goings-on. Black Priscilla, maid at his hotel, had no such complicated thoughts: "I'm a Baptist. ... I don't hold by those jumpers. The females jump, and the males jump after them...