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... beautiful skirt-dancer. Lady Cardigan's first 'husband was the famous peer soldier who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Her second was the Count de Lancastre, a Portuguese nobleman descended from John of Gaunt. Lady Cardigan, like so many of the women ...
... his constancy. To Mr. Harry Grattan has been entrusted the task of mimicking the actor-manager of Her Majesty's. Imitation is said to be the sincerest flattery. In remembering this Mr. Beerbohm Tree may be comforted. Mr. Grattan gets all possible fun out ...
... the conductor to stop. Why on earth didn't you stop the 'bus in the first place? he roared. Didn t you see me swing ing my arms and jumping up and down, and waving my umbrella? 'Course I did, replied the conductor blandly. Nobody couldn't help seeing ...
... means that there is no seam under the arm to rub or strain the muscles. The under-side of the sleeve is carried down into the scye of the coat, which allows perfect freedom of movement and at the same time the arm can be extended without lifting the coat ...
... crossing, the appropriate arm of the spot is usually invisible until the car is almost level with it. In this case, it is better to be guided by the two clearly readable signs pointing right and left. Thus, the left-hand arm of the sign-post may say Bum- ...
... That the Serjeant-at-Arms be within the House to make proclama tions, which are to be made in the King's name, for keeping silence. 13. That the Ea$l Russell be seated within the bar uncovered and without his robes. jVTr. John Rutherford, the Unionist ...
... push the other into the lady's arms, until they realise at last that the best way of saving themselves is to save each other by going off as fast as the bargee's barge will carry them. In this W. W. Jacobs-like episode Mr. John Humphries and Miss Gracie Leigh ...
... immortal ballad, Home, Sweet Home, was sung for the first time on May 8, 1823, in Clari, the Maid of Milan. The Chevalier Grattan Flood, Mus.D., here deals with the origin of the song and its composition. THERE are few English songs that make such an ...
... finally won. Lady Cardigan. Owing to the odd custom of the peerage, as there is only one lady who is at present entitled to the style of Lady Cardigan, she is so called without any prefix of a Christian name. But she is Lord Cardigan's distant cousin by ...
... Albemarle Street Dukes Duke of Rutland Beaufort Earls Chandos Cardigan Kent Grantham Norfolk Orkney Earls- Salisbury tarls Wa.degrave Ashburnbam Westmorland1 Bristol Viscounts Clarendon St. John Lincoln i Poulett Portmore Strafford Barons- Tankerville Guilford ...
... feudal days lords and barons were in the habit of exhibiting their power by en forcing tolls, and the Baron de Ferrars, who bore arms simie of horseshoes, chose this method of showing his power. The toll was rigidly enforced, and in the early days the shoes ...
... meeting for a golf tournament and, we presume, a little talk, at Le Toquet Golf Club. Our picture shows Mr. Grattan Doyle (left), Sir Harry Greer, Sir John Rutherford, Lt.-Col. Sir Frederick Hall (at the back), Mr. George Terrell and Sir Joseph Hood Photograph ...