Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propped up in bed a short while before his final, sudden relapse into coma, Lord Birkenhead scanned London papers, learned that he was "now almost recovered from his long illness." He died believing he would soon be well. His doctors, who had authorized the too optimistic early bulletin, issued a final one, brief, explicit...
...Earl of Birkenhead passed peacefully away at 11:15 this morning. There had been a further increase in the pneumonic infection, and the heart muscles, feeling the effect of this, dilated and failed...
Recognizing that the Earl belonged first to Law, Margaret Countess of Birkenhead and her children stood aside. "He was a truly wonderful man," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, often target of the Earl's most scathing shafts. "To disagree with Lord Birkenhead in no way diminished the extraordinary respect which one had to pay to his powers...
...every Briton knows that Lord Birkenhead's grandfather was first a miner, next a fisticuffer who fought his way to the heavyweight championship of Yorkshire, finally a zealous house agent in grimy Birkenhead?just across the River Mersey from bustling Liverpool...
This fisticuffer's son went soldiering when a sprig of 17, wangled his way up in the hard-boiled Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...