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...younger sister, is a jealous little flapper with her eyes wide open. Alas for peace, three young men live near by. Two of them, André and Bertrand, are brothers, childhood friends of Antoinette's. But their guest Robert, bronzed, much-traveled civil engineer, is the rock on which feminine friendship is shattered. Realist Suzon, seeing she has no chance with Robert, contents herself with tantalizingly dangerous escapades with Bertrand, light of heart and tongue. André is hopelessly in love with Antoinette, makes love to Annonciade in order to score over her idol. Before he knows it they...
...Corsair (IV), enormous $2,500,000 yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan aboard, shelved herself on Lobster Rock, a reef in Gilkey's Harbor, Maine. Next morning at high tide two tugs heaved sturdily, budged her not. At evening high tide two tugs and a coast guard cutter heaved mightily, floated her free. Mr. Morgan received the news at Gannochy Lodge in Forfarshire where he had gone for the grouseshooting...
...were parties all week through Long Island's polo country. Big cars hurried along the roads, driving a little faster than usual for there were many trips to be made-guests met at the station, a wait at the front door and then to Meadow Brook or Piping Rock for lunch, then the game, then out to dinner, and a long wait through the dancing. At the parties, and in the garish, robins-egg blue grandstand at the games, was a mingling of many worlds, the great business world and the somewhat different, sporting-society world, with a touch...
...nothing to connect 7 5-year-old Andrew William Mellon, whose daughter bears the name of Ailsa, with the 83-year-old owner of St. Kilda, but found much to connect Lord Ailsa with the U. S. The Marquess of Ailsa, whose title comes from Ailsa Craig, a precipitous rock at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, is a direct descendant of a Captain Archibald Kennedy, R. N., who inherited an estate near Hoboken, N. J. in 1763, married into New York's Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families, was said to own "more houses in New York than...
...Dawes & friends wandered last fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...