Word: asquith
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...FitzJames was really no more than a crude pioneer compared to P. J. Asquith, also of Lowell. Asquith maintained for four brilliant years the illusion that he never went to lectures, and made his name by affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain lecture notes: reading those of his friends late at light when they were asleep, attending vital lectures in exotic disguises, and so forth. Thus he would be completely prepared when the inevitable friend broached the topic of the imminent hour exam...
...minor characters, from the lesser Win-slows to the handwriting expert at the trial, are unusually fine. Director Anthony Asquith had taken advantage of this good casting, an excellent script, and judicious amounts of inspiring London Symphony Orchestra music, to turn a much-praised play into an exciting, fast-moving movie...
Britain's once famed and powerful Liberal Party, which produced such parliamentary lions as William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Asquith and David Lloyd George, has not played a decisive role in British politics since 1924. Nevertheless, a recent Gallup poll showed that 38% of the British electorate, weary of Clement Attlee's Socialism, distrustful of Winston Churchill's Conservatism, said that they would vote Liberal if they thought the party had a chance of winning. Last week both Socialists and Tories were ardently wooing the Liberals, and some observers thought that the third party's role might...
Winston Churchill launched his campaign to capture the Liberal vote last month with a gallant gesture toward his old friend and Liberal leader, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, daughter of onetime Liberal Prime Minister Asquith. He offered to give her some of the Tories' free radio time. At the same time, Laborite Herbert Morrison was courting the political loyalty of another important Liberal, Lady Megan Lloyd George, daughter of Britain's last Liberal Prime Minister...
...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...