San Francisco is a moral town, but one night lately some 5,000 of its best citizens could have been observed wildly applauding a swaggering, black-eyed duke who, at the top of his lungs, was flaunting loose views about women. Only a few of the citizens, however, like Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini and his wife, could understand what the duke's words meant. For the rest of the assemblage-for the Dohrmans and Dakins; for Schweppes, Liggetts, Armsbys, Robbinses, McNears; for Novelist Gertrude Atherton sitting in onetime (1915-21)...
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