Word: beaconsfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...
...with some amusement that the world saw Ramsey MacDonald; first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield...
...Lefebyre and Benjamin Constant, acquired a precise and elegant technique, and developed, by painting the cold noses of aristocrats and the torsos of the wives of trade-kings, a satiric turn of mind that would have made him an ornament to the House in the days of Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Two years ago he painted a picture of King George. The monarch's little legs protruded from a dandiacal bouquet of ribbons and stars, ermine and furbelows; his wan, overbred features looked down like a face of wax in a show window. Critics labeled the picture "The Mayfly Monarch...
Thus were the two leaders when the greatest of all Parliaments was at its greatest. His body breaking up, Disraeli in this year of 1876 left the Commons for the milder House of Lords, becoming the Earl of Beaconsfield. But he still retained the leadership of his party and was prime minister (1874-80)?his one spell of real unchallenged power. He had begun this reign by getting the Suez Canal?with Rothschild's help. "Madame, you have it," he scribbled to the Queen...