Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eighty Club (of Asqutihian Liberals), Lord Oxford (former Premier H. H. Asquith) and ex-Premier George swore eternal peace. The Mr. Asquith said the Mr. George was a seer and a gladiator, possessed of unfailing sympathy for the common people. Mr. George referred to the "characteristic warm and generous tribute" of his chief. Apparently there is now no rift in the Liberal lute. Differences had arisen concerning the Party's leadership when Mr. Asquith was elevated to the peerage. As Lord Oxford, he retains the Liberal leadership...
...King appointed ex-Premier Lord Oxford and Asquith a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the place of the recently deceased Lord Milner (TIME, May 25). Lord Oxford is the third living ex-Prime Minister to be so honored, the other two being Lords Rosebery and Balfour. The Order of the Garter, created in 1349 by Edward III, is the highest decoration† in the Commonwealth...
...territorials (Home Defense Force which volunteered almost to a man for service abroad). Last week, Death carried off this famous soldier in his 73d year. He died of complications arising from an operation for appendicitis performed last March. Little more than a fortnight ago, Lord Oxford and Asquith (ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith) paid tribute in a speech to Field Marshals Lord Haig and Kitchener, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe, General Sir John Cowans ("best Quartermaster since Moses") and ex-Premier George as "the five great men [British] of the War." The name of Lord Ypres (Sir John French...
...Margot" Asquith. Following this, "Margot" Asquith (Lady Oxford and Asquith) published her latest book, Persons and Places, one chapter of which deals with American impressions gathered during her last visit to this country...
...George), 1 Canadian (Mr. Bonar Law), 28 English. Twenty-five were peers or the sons of peers, 8 were country gentlemen or members of well-connected families, 5 came from the so-called middleclass: Addington, son of a doctor; Disraeli, grandson of a merchant; Gladstone, son of a shipowner; Asquith, son of a manufacturer; George, son of an itinerant teacher. The remaining one, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, was born in the humblest circumstances, his relatives being fishers and farm hands...