Word: ava
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Uncle of chubby, cherubic-looking Harold Nicolson's was Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of Dufferin and Earl of Ava, P.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. He added Egypt and Burma to the British Empire. Harold Nicolson's father was Sir Arthur Nicolson, Baron Carnock, of Carnock, British diplomat in such outposts as Teheran (where Child Harold was born), Constantinople and Vienna. When, after 20 years of foreign service, Harold Nicolson renounced diplomacy for authoring, he wrote overtly laudatory, covertly ironical lives of his uncle...
...That is true," admitted Lord Dufferin & Ava, then continued his ringing address as a budding statesman by keynoting: "His Majesty's Government are determined not to allow calm proposals to be blocked by threats!" Without a vote in the Lords the bill then went to the Commons...
...Irishman aged only 28, the 4th Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, had charge of His Majesty's Government's bill in the House of Lords as Undersecretary for Colonies, was on trial last week as a coming Conservative statesman of possibly bright future...
Born. To the ninth Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada; a son (he has been married since 1912, has two other children); in Montreal. The child is the first to be born to a Governor-General of Canada since the present Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava gave birth to a son in 1875. From George V came a request that he might be the boy's godfather...
...Vanity Fair received a scathing letter from Mrs. Ava Long, White Housekeeper, last week. Mrs. Long had read an article, Your Host in the White House by Jefferson Chase, in the smartchart's March issue which ridiculed the sorry lack of ceremony at White House functions. Said Author Chase: "There is not a humble Negro lodge-brother who could not give pur Government cards and aces and beat it every time on dignified ceremonial." Said Housekeeper Long: "Jefferson Chase should be run out of town. . . . You would be the first to object if your taxes were increased in order...