Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white-haired earl sat down at his desk last week and wrote finis to one of the longest and most momentous careers of any living Englishman. He was Herbert Henry Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.*By a scratch of the pen he resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed...
Tearful Valediction. That he might say a personal farewell to his followers Lord Oxford and Asquith journeyed to address a throng of Liberals at Greenock, Scotland. Before he spoke, the audience sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and cheered throughout his dignified address...
...newly released novel The World of William Clissold: George V, R. I. is "the worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII." The Earl of Balfour, "that damned madonna lily; . . . grows where he is planted." Lloyd George is as "clever as six foxes Margot Asquith: " Wherever- there is a foreground there also will be the Countess of Oxford and Asquith...
...might have shown a preference in the naming of his earldom for some title as hoar in honor as the first half of that possessed by nouveau Lord Oxford and Asquith. Instead, little Freddy Smith, grown up into one of England's greatest barrister-statesmen proclaimed his origin by choosing the name of a city scarcely older than himself...
...capable painter; he knew that when people are watched they are generous but that the offers one seals up in privy envelopes are apt to be mean. His show brought him $25,000, with a top price of $7,500 for a portrait of Princess Bibesco (Lord Asquith's daughter)-returns that have only been surpassed, among contemporary painters, by Sargent...