Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down on the Riviera, beneath a floppy straw hat, sits a contentious and indomitable press lord, Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, keeping an alert eye on his London Express, working on his 13th and 14th books and still full of rage and passion at 84. He is interviewed in PRESS...
...terrace of his villa, La Capponcina (Little Capon), overlooking Monte Carlo, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, leans on a Malacca cane. He looks as old as he is: 84. Age has bleached his skin to wrinkled parchment; one foot is shoeless, a concession to gout; a floppy, broad-brimmed straw hat shields him from the hot Mediterranean sun. But the sun has not been up much longer than the Beaver, and he is not there merely to bask...
...relished the great world of London where he cut so fine a figure. He believed that he spoke for the underside of English life, but in the nature of things he had ceased to belong to it. "Bellinger Bolshevik," jeered Conservative Brendan Bracken as Bevan lolled in Lord Beaverbrook's drawing room. Unmoved, Bevan retorted that Beaver-brook's Bollinger was better champagne than he was offered at Bracken's house. A good riposte, but was this scene another of "the radiant ambiguities of the word Socialism...
...bombers joined the fray, and last April, when Frederika was in London for the wedding of her third cousin Princess Alexandra, she was set upon by a crowd of demonstrators and forced to seek refuge in a private house. Britain's anti-Greek chorus was swelled by Lord Beaverbrook, who, for reasons of his own, scurrilously attacked her in his newspapers for her German background...
...Decline and Fall of Lloyd George, by Lord Beaverbrook. An intimate account of the events that in 1922 ended the career of one of the greatest of England's Prime Ministers, by a man who had a large part in his downfall...