Word: asquiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Bridges was born on the Isle of Thanet, was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Until he was 38 he practiced medicine. Then he began publishing poetry, much of it experimenting in Classical metre.* In 1913, aged 69, he was appointed Poet Laureate by Premier Asquith, succeeding Laureate Alfred Austin. Laureate Bridges is a founder of the Society for Pure English, serves as arbiter of pronunciation in British radio broadcasting...
...John Morley, noted Liberal, scholarly statesman, adamant pacifist, political godfather of James Ramsay MacDonald, resigned from Asquith's cabinet rather than endorse Great Britain's entrance into the World War, died in September...
Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
Within two hours after this prediction, Rosa Ponselle sang her "Casta Diva." The great house listened. The top galleries bulged with humble music-lovers. In the boxes were the Italian Ambassador, Mme. Melba, Prince & Princess Bismarck, Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, Lady Cunard, Lords Leesdale, Colebrooke and Monteagle, and onetime King Manuel of Portugal and his consort. . . . From top to bottom Covent Garden yielded itself to the spell of a glorious voice, forgot all traditions, burst into riotous applause. The third act brought another demonstration...
...understand America. ... I do not forget that an Oxford experience will be immensely stimulating to the American appointee. . . ." The Rhodes professors will visit from one to five years, will be attached to Balliol College, which is scholastically prominent and famed as the intellectual crib of the late Herbert Henry Asquith and many another statesman who rose under Her late Majesty Victoria. The finality of royal assent was given in England, last fortnight, to a bill providing for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states from which annually four Rhodes scholars will be chosen...