Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Married. James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of U. S. Representative James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Lionel Tennyson, niece of Margot Asquith, and onetime wife of Poet Tennyson's grandson; in London...
...cross between St. George and Don Quixote"-one might add P. Y. Barnum to Author Long's analysis, and so justify Asquith in diagnosing Bryan as "a peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would agree; if, which is more likely, he meant typical, there are those who would cavil. Not so Author Long, who writes a sympathetic though by no means fanatic account of the loves and hates, works and troubles, of the peculiar product...
...When the War broke out Herbert Henry Asquith was British Prime Minister; David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Princess Bibesco (not to be confused with the writer-daughter of Margot Asquith) presided at 18 over the Rumanian legation in Teheran when her husband was minister to Persia. She prefers living and writing in Paris...
...Prime Minister (1908-16), Earl of Oxford and Asquith (created 1925), died three months ago (TIME, Feb. 27). By his first wife, Helen Melland of Manchester, he had three sons, one daughter. Last week his estate was probated, totals...