Word: birkenhead
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...dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...
Until Evahgeline Birkenhead's advent, Teddy's amative life had been in part fanciful, in part optical, in part under suburban hedges ("Starp it, I tell you!"), entirely virginal. When Teddy surprisingly received a comfortable bequest, Miss Birkenhead beat Miss Blame in the race for Hero Tewler. The seduction, marriage and sexual initiation, cruel but convincing, are brightened only by a dandified best man who neighs a stentorian Hey! before every brontosaurian innuendo...
...Lord Birkenhead on Sir Samuel Hoare : "The trouble with Sam is that he is descended from a long line of maiden aunts...
That summer Empire-Builder Baden-Powell, with one career behind him, had an idea for another. In a camp at Brown-sea Island he gathered 21 young Britons together, began teaching them the rudiments of scouting. The following winter the Boy Scouts were inaugurated in Birkenhead, two years later the Girl Guides were started with the help of his sister, and he resigned from the Army...
...ideas he taught spread fast. Within six months after Birkenhead there were 80,000 scouts in Britain. The movement spread abroad as well. In 1910 the Boy Scouts of America were organized in a combination of such existing groups as Ernest Thompson Seton's Indians and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone. At the Third World Jamboree in 1929 Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Chief of the Boy Scouts of the World, met with 50,000 scouts from 73 countries. That year raised to the peerage for his work, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell had built...