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...MARY ASQUITH...
...William Watson, 77, "dean" of English poets, longtime "neglected genius" who three times almost became Poet Laureate; after brief illness; in Sussex, England. Best known as a lyricist for his sonnets and elegies, Poet Watson derived his greatest fame from a lampoon of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, entitled: "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." Excerpt...
Imperceptibly the silver-haired, silver-tongued Evangelist-politician's popularity has ebbed away. The throng which gathered to see him quit No. 10 Downing St. after a longer tenure of power than any other Prime Minister since Mr. Asquith consisted last week of exactly ten frumpy women-the type that can be seen in London waiting for the emergence of any celebrity from Princess Marina to Polly Moran. Thin indeed was their cheer, but, fortunately for himself, James Ramsay MacDonald is a Scotsman. His inner light has always burned brighter than adversity, criticism or contempt. Like all Scots...
...Anecdotage provoked by the Jubilee drew from equine-featured Margot Asquith's daughter-in-law Lady Cynthia this: "Once the Queen was ill and the King was sitting by her bedside holding her hand, when she fell asleep. Afraid that if he moved she would be awakened, the King remained in the same position for several hours. Another time the King said with deep feeling, 'If anything were to happen to the Queen I should...
...since last year. Reform has been forgotten and, moved by a vague fear--a feeling of uncertainty--Englishmen have shown themselves more and more willing to entrust complete control of affairs to the government. Thus the so-called coalition government of Ramsay MacDonald, like the liberal ministry of Herbert Asquith, waits and prepares...