Word: birkenhead
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...course: First, Signor Benito Mussolini, 45, who lives most of the year away from his wife, Donna Rachele, yet dotes on their only daughter, Edda; and the Second, the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Furneaux, 56, Secretary of State for India, a devoted British husband, and a hero to his two smart daughters-Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith...
...Said Birkenhead: "In England during the War, when millions of men were drawn away from industry for military purposes vast numbers of women were called in to take their places...
...Sympathized with the 6y-year-old Baron Buckmaster of Cheddington, a sponsor of the Liquor Control Bill, when he received a savage tongue-lashing from the 56-year-old Earl of Birkenhead, famed Secretary of State for India...
...countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently incurred the public censure of the courts" (TIME, July...
...three: Home Secretary Sir William "Jix" Joynson-Hicks; Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead; and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill...