Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parliamentarians are likewise absent. Premier Baldwin and Marquis Curzon are in France. Lord Balfour and Mr. Asquith are resting in the country. Many others are in Denmark attending the Interparliamentary Union. Mr. Lloyd George is reputed to be playing golf...
...CHILD AT HOME-Lady Cynthia Asquith-Scribner...
...this quietly delightful volume Lady Cynthia Asquith, wife of a son of the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith by his first marriage, discusses The Nursery, At Table, Visitors, Rending Aloud, Pets and the activities, pleasures, perils, fears, delights of childhood in general with certain interspersed reminiscences of her own childhood as charming as they are unsentimental and vivid. She dreaded having to ride the elephant in the Zoo-milk-pudding: she loathed, and still remembers with despair the would-be jocular visitors who greeted her with, "Shall I cut your curls off?" or " Are you jealous of your little brother...
...most important paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter of the English school in the 18th Century, were purchased by Americans at the private sale of the late Sir Charles Tennant (father of Mrs. H. H. Asquith) through Duveen Brothers, New York. The buyers and prices were not announced. The pictures...
William Randolph Hearst: " At a convention of motion picture men in New York, I said in a speech: 'I have heard a good deal in the publishing business about the necessity of writing down to the public taste and I have never found that necessity to exist.'" Lord Asquith: " I wrote an article for a charity of Paisley, my constituency, in which I declared: ' Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life...