Word: bessborough
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...Excellency the Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada was in bed last week with a severe chill. But Canada was as hot as the Earl was cool. From Quebec to British Columbia angry little groups talked of his behavior while newspapers demanded a public apology...
Fortnight ago on Empire Day the city of Toronto celebrated its 100th anniversary with parades, speeches and banquets. As Governor General, Lord Bessborough had accepted an invitation, but, more important to native sons. Toronto's best known daughter, Mary Pickford, had come home for the centenary, stealing all the applause...
...bellowed Lord Bessborough. "Where is your Mary Pickford? Get on with your Mary Pickford show! Whers is the parade? Get on with the parade! And I want to know, my man, what you will say if I report to the King that I have not been properly received in Toronto...
After the parade Lord Bessborough refused to sign the distinguished visitors' book at Toronto's Old Fort, departed in a huff...
Canada's Governor General Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, in England on leave, tried to catch a drunken monkey on his Hampshire estate by swooping on it in an airplane, dropping a net. The monkey, which had taken to the Earl's whiskey, escaped in the underbrush...