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...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...
...royal lover of beauteous Gaby Deslys, refused to return to Portugal in 1919 when Royalists proclaimed him King again. Actress Deslys died in 1920, also of a throat infection. Dom Manoel retired with his wife (whose marriage Pope Benedictus XV had refused to annul) to his farm at Twickenham, near London, settled down to a life of farming, tennis, fencing and following horse races. He died while his valet's daughter was being married. He had promised to be best...
...Twickenham last week dashed Scotland Yard detectives, summoned by a close friend of George V whom London newspapers respectfully call "King Manoel of Portugal," despite the fact that Portugal became a Republic...
...association football (soccer), 20; rugby, 28; golf, 20; hockey, 25; lacrosse, 15 ; swimming, 12. Rugby stars last year played in international matches when the interuniversity series were over. Rowing is so strenuous that college oarsmen take up practically no other sport. ". . . In idealistic England the spectator capacity at Twickenham, where many college rugby games are played, is more than 100,000, almost twice as large as the Harvard Stadium, and on more than a few occasions this structure has been filled for college games...
...Marlow. Columbia's 150-lb. crew, in England for the famed Henley race, last week won a practice race from the Twickenham Rowing Club over the Henley distance (|⅞ mi.), at Marlow on the Thames...