"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
To make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He...
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