Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake with 21 twinkling candles...
...looked about him with a quietly superior eye and wrote most of his first book, Futility, which, it was hoped, would retrieve the family fortunes. It was at Oxford that Gerhardi began to be unimpressed by the great ones of the earth. At the Oxford Union he heard Lord Birkenhead ("a bully of genius"), Winston Churchill ("poor stuff for a grown...
Lady Eleanor Smith (her father, the late Lord Birkenhead, started life as plain Frederick Edwin Smith) has several claims to fame: she is young, pretty, popular; and her father's career is a dowry richer than most English girls get nowadays. Last year she staked another claim by writing a novel, Red Wagon, which became a U.S. bestseller. Now she has written another, not great but good...
...Birkenhead, Herbert T. Coker, back in England from the U. S. for the first time in 43 years, was summoned to court. In 1888 he had been ordered to pay $1 a week to a Mrs. Elizabeth Dempsey for support of her child. He had never paid it, was $260 in arrears (the child had died aged five). Said Herbert T. Coker: "This is quite a surprise to me." Boomed Magistrate T. Rees: "The law has a very good memory...
...Appointed under the late Earl of Birkenhead when Secretary of State for India, Sir John Simon shared the Birkenhead view that no Indian should sit on the Simon commission, and none...