Word: asquiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under her hawk nose, Premier Baldwin, in a topper, Ishbel Macdonald with her father, a crowd of college men wearing golf clothes to show their nonchalance, a host of pretty people who bowed to other people who did not know them, went up the stairs...
...Commons, Mr. Lloyd George spoke platitudes, but later he referred cockily to Prime Minister Asquith, under whom Mr. Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the War began. Said he: "On a solemn occasion like this I prefer to recall the days of our pleasant and, I think it would be admitted, fruitful association, when we were working together for great causes...
...Lloyd George stole his ideas from Asquith's head and used them as his own. Psychological history should show that Asquith died from Lloyd George...
Though the Dean of Westminster proposed, last week, that the late Lord Oxford and Asquith should be buried in Westminster Abbey, this project was thwarted by the dead Earl. He had left positive instructions. Therefore his body was quietly removed, last week, from his Berkshire estate to the neighboring little Church of All Saints. With none but members of his immediate family present the service was performed by the Bishop of Oxford. Later the peer who was called "Lord Oxford" by all, including the King, was interred in the little country graveyard of All Saints...
...striking contrast with the simple taste of the late Lord Oxford was that of "Margot," Countess of Oxford and Asquith, who permitted and participated in, last week, an ostentatious mourning service in Westminster Abbey. Belated, this took place on the day following the actual funeral. Formal, it drew phalanxes of potent Britons as well as the diplomatic corps...