Word: baronets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months political observers have played a counting-out game with these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent League of Nations partisan, went on teaching Greek...
Golfer, musician, horseman, photographer, Conservative Sir Douglas has been symbolic of his Conservative company. Made a baronet in 1921, he has worked strenuously in both the Manhattan and London offices, has pushed the European development rapidly. Last week he some-what altered his policy of reticence, told stockholders more than the earnings, which were...
...solemn public duty of being whimsical weighs a little heavier each year on Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week the aging Baronet again consented to do his whimsiest. A good many people hoped it would be better than last year, when the creator of Peter Pan opened a fair in his native Scotland with a long story about how he had passed the evening with Mary Queen of Scots and would have brought her along to the fair, only she vanished...
...Amid prodigious applause the Baronet resumed his seat. He had done it again. As the charity auction began he bid in for 150 guineas ($763) a letter written by Oliver Cromwell to the Admiralty. Then the original manuscript of his own one-act play The Twelve Pound Look was offered, Barrie watched in silent complacence while bid capped bid until Manhattan Bookman Gabriel Wells took it for 2.300 guineas...
...Majesty also was pleased by and with the advice of his Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, that Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Baronet, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries, do cause a warrant to be prepared for His Majesty's royal signature for passing under the Great Seal of the Realm a commission conformable to the said draft which is hereunto annexed...