Word: austen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monocle as well known abroad as that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...
Reports from British warboats last week were that Jack Tar everywhere took his 10% cut with glum obedience, showed no further symptoms of gas. ¶ First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that Admiral Sir Michael Hodges, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, had requested to be relieved because of illness (he was on sick leave during the mutiny); that the King had appointed Vice Admiral Sir John Kelly to succeed...
President Hoover has not yet been burned in effigy at Moscow, differing in this respect from Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain* and the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek. But last week both Mr. Hoover and ex-Chairman Alexander Legge of the U. S. Federal Farm Board became in Moscow popular candidates for stuffing & burning. Reason: "The Hoover Plot against the Soviet Union...
...Long after he retired as British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and became politically impotent, effigies of Sir Austen continued to be burned in Russia, first because his monocle is a bourgeois-British symbol (British Laborites do not wear them) and second because Sir Austen's rush of teeth could easily be exaggerated by Soviet effigy-stuffers into something quite repulsive...
...Chamberlain had three wives. The first two (cousins) each bore him a son, and both unfortunate mothers died in childbed. No. 1 son by No. 1 wife is Sir Austen Chamberlain, famed Nobel Peace Prize winner (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Many people privately consider him an affected blockhead, the husband of one of the smartest "political wives" in Europe. Austen copied his father in all ways as best he could (omitting only the 19th Century orchid); he made a name once as great as that of his friend Briand; and he retired with the Garter...