Word: beaconsfield
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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...
Just before Disraeli left the Prime Ministry in 1880 he struck definitely the tone of their correspondence thus: "Lord Beaconsfield, no longer in the sunset but in the twilight of existence, must encounter a life of anxiety and toil; but this, too, has its romance, when he remembers that he labors for the most gracious of beings...
...most terribly shocked and grieved, for dear Lord Beaconsfield was one of my best, most devoted and kindest of friends, as well as the wisest of councillors...
...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...