Word: bessborough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal box until time for the main race, when she scuttled off to the judges' stand...
...master stroke of Empire tact, His Majesty's Government last week gave Canada its first commoner for Governor-General. Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough...
...fact that they had read Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection of the next Governor-General in the presence of Lord Bessborough, but His Excellency will understand...
...river and Neuflize for his late maternal French grandfather, an exceedingly rich Paris banker. For days Canadian papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction the Governor General became "the actual person of the King in Canada" when...
Next night as Parliament caught its breath, Lord & Lady Bessborough held the "Drawing Room" equivalent in Canada to presentation at Court. Flanked by a galaxy of decorative generals, the Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare...