Word: beresford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment in his anecdote, Jones drops the laconic footnote, "Private information," and rushes on in a mountain torrent of Welsh reminiscences...
...does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess. The courtesan, on the other hand, was elegant, intelligent, well informed and equipped by temperament and training for the management of men and money...
DONALD C. DE LA POER BERESFORD London...
...London boulevardier, last week bagged a pride of social lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his 17-year-old daughter Daphne: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret with a new and eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with the Queen, also got a precedent-breaking (because Fairbanks and his wife are divorced) invitation to tea at Ascot on the sacrosanct sod of the Queen's Lawn...
DONALD C. DE LA POER BERESFORD...