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...SERMONS-Margot Asquith- Doran ($2.50). Her alert countenance, her boundless arrogance, her crude curious argot, her inquisitive mind with its eagerness to disclose whatever trifles it may contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink...
...flavored, according to the critics, with several "indiscretions," although, according to British legal theory, the King can do no wrong. Earl Balfour, onetime (1902-05) Prime Minister, the biographer reveals, was annoyed because "The King has treated me with scant courtesy." The King thought the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (then Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith) was "reticent, secretive, reserved" and that he deliberately withheld information from his monarch. On one occasion he wrote to Premier Asquith asking him to tell Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, now Chairman of the Midland Bank, that it was "his duty...
...made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital in Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches. ... I have some ideas myself as to relief measures for the farmer, but am not prepared just now. . . ." Still in Peru is Mrs. Miles Poindexter, U. S. replica of Margot Asquith, said to have remarked on the occasion of her hus- band's failure to secure re-election in 1922: "Washington voters, like a widely-advertised brand of tires, smile at Miles...
Divorced. Major the Hon. Lionel Hallam Tennyson, grandson of Poet Tennyson and heir of the present Baron Tennyson; from the onetime Clarissa Madeline Georgina Felicity Tennant, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith ("Margot"); at London. The suit was not contested by Mrs. Tennyson. Her husband named as corespondent James Montgomery Beck Jr., of London, son of the onetime Solicitor General...
...Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...