Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what are called "The Shires"-Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Northamptonshire, where gently rolling hills make it easy to stay with the hounds and the humid air makes for good scent. One of the noblest of the Shires' hunts is the ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream of the hunting...
Eyebrows upped last week at the tubby little Lord Chief Justice of England. Fresh from his recent public spat with the Lord High Chancellor (TIME, Dec. 24), Baron Hewart popped off to Totteridge, his home village in Hertfordshire. There the 65-year-old Lord Chief Justice of England abruptly married a buxom New Zealander three inches taller and 37 years younger than himself. His bride was Miss Jean Stewart, supervisor of a school for boys at Elstree, "England's Hollywood...
Going on was an attempt by Lord High Chancellor Sankey to ease through Parliament a seemingly innocuous bill creating two new Lord Justices and empowering Viscount Sankey to name the presidents of the two Appeals Courts. Stormed Baron Hewart: '"Such an office is unknown to the Constitution and the law! If the odious features of the bill before this House are not removed, I will adjourn my court every afternoon and come here to fight them-not clause by clause but line by line and word by word!" In effect the Lord Chief Justice thus threatened...
This onslaught left the House of Lords gaping and gasping. "I had nothing to do with drafting the obnoxious clause," bleated the Master of the Rolls, Baron Hanworth of Hanworth, onetime High Steward of Stratford-on-Avon and President of the Magna Charta Society...
This time it was fat Baron Hewart who wore a contemptuous, judicial smile, while lean Viscount Sankey, in defending the Government against charges of attempting to rig Justice, shouted, "Moonshine! Moonshine!! MOONSHINE...