Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were to be found there: the great hostesses such as Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Keppel, Lady Cunard; the new beauties, including Lady Diana Manners; the first open roadsters (in other years only "the fastest of fast actresses" would have gone driving alone with a young man); the first dazzling London seasons of Diaghilev's Russian ballet...
Died. Margot Asquith, 81, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, witty widow of British Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
Died. Princess Elizabeth Bibesco,* 48, acid-penned, socialite British author (Portrait of Caroline), daughter of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith (Herbert H. Asquith, Prime Minister 1908-1916), wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S. (1920-1926), who nearly got called home when she "intervened" in U.S. politics by urging the 1924 election of Presidential Nominee John W. Davis; in Bucharest, Rumania, while listening to a news broadcast...
...policy included the Beveridge Plan for full employment (TIME, Nov. 20), a housing program calling for 750,000 new houses a year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than...
...Some other Union officers: Lords Asquith, Curzon, Birkenhead, Tweedsmuir...