Word: blenheim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory that Macmillan brought off was of the famous kind that made Tories whoop as for Blenheim, Waterloo or Mafeking. "I reckon that 100,000 bottles of bubbly were consumed within an area of four square miles of London," said a nightclub owner after glittering thousands had danced, drunk and cheered till dawn. The staid London Stock Exchange erupted in an exuberant burst of buying as morning-coated brokers shouted bids at lung-top, stood on chairs to make sure their bids were recognized; industrial shares soared 16.1 points for the biggest rise ever recorded in a single...
...memory is dimmed by the bitter fact that the war itself turned out to be the obliterating modern thing he himself had predicted. His Broome Park house, which Bachelor Kitchener had hoped would be another Blenheim for his ducal bones, was sold and became a hotel. As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job. His horse's bronze legs stuck out from under the covering. Thus his true memorial is not an Oxford graduate's biography nor a Kipling's "lest...
Spelling alone, however, cannot account for the duke's strategy, whose motivation can only be guessed. The subject: English history. "At Blenheim Marlborough directed his atacks at the right wing, where were stationed the most delectable French troops...
Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A jewel box of a biography of the incomparable Sarah Churchill, wife to the hero of Blenheim, ancestress of Sir Winston...
...Sarah's grandeur reached perfection in the years that followed her fall from favor. "That B.B.B.B. old B.* the Duchess of Marlbh" (as the architect of Blenheim Palace, Sir John Vanbrugh, described her) outlived not only her husband, but Anne, Anne's successor (George I) and most of her own children. Widowed at 62, she rejected offers of marriage from an earl and from the proud Duke of Somerset. Marlborough had loved her passionately (tradition has it that on coming home from the wars, he would "pleasure" her even before he had taken off his boots), and Sarah...