Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifth son of the late Earl of Crawford, tall Sir Ronald is high in chivalry, can match order for order with the present British Ambassador at Washington, courtly Sir Esme Howard. Both are Knights Commander of the Bath, both are Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, both...
¶ Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight.
¶ The Widows Pension Bill (TIME, Oct. 28) passed after an all-night debate lasting 18 hours which resulted in the altering of exactly one word in the original text.
Wednesday?"Baron Subkoff came today and we played tennis. I hope he will continue to call on me. He strikes me as the ideal companion for a lady, and I have an impression that he is also fond of me."
Famed but false is the story that infatuated Victoria dubbed Subkoff "Baron" herself with a sword belonging to her ex-Imperial brother. Her diary is the best proof that Subkoff was presented to her as a Russian nobleman exiled but honorable. Actually his father was a cobbler. He himself has...