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Speaker Nicholas ("Nick") Longworth is the plump and debonair great-grandson of the winemaker in praise of whose golden wedding vintage Poet Longfellow wrote "The Queen of the West."* He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan. His grandfather collected camel's-hair shawls. He has collected friends. Getting Theodore Roosevelt for a father-in-law was a reward of that same industry and wit by which he attained-and not through the father-in-law-to the chairmanship at the meetings of all the stockholders...
...each night, outside the tall iron fence of Buckingham Palace. Most of the time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their...
...queen is made out more pure than she was, the king more kind, and the cardinal more fool, Author Barrington has nevertheless caught glitter and tragedy in her engrossing tale of the ominous days before the French Revolution...
...dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...
...super-house" of When I Grow Rich is a glorified boarding house in Bloomsbury run by eight young, and mostly struggling, artists, doctors, and unclassified. Each lays claim to one charm or another, but queen of them all is Auburn whose frankness, not to mention beauty, intensely endears her to at least two of the boarders - one of them idle-rich, and pathetically eager to be of small services; the other poor, but Scotch and ambitious. The triangle is pulled awry by the affairs of the house - one boarder blackballs another to conceal a theft and a clandestine love affair...