Word: brassey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's income-producing properties are managed by what is in effect a holding company, the Crown Lands Office. Its unsalaried front man is the Minister for Agriculture, now 36-year-old Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, Earl De La Warr and Viscount Cantelupe. The Commission's two potent drudges are Permanent Commissioner Charles Lancelot Stocks and Assistant Commissioner G. P. Best. They pay the Crown Lands monies to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who pays out the Civil List in turn to His Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse...
When the 1933 edition of Brassey's Naval Shipping Annual last month criticized the U. S. S. Colorado, Maryland and West Virginia as slow and underarmed, Admiral Pratt dolefully declared: "These battleships of ours are not the latest word, are not comparable to the Nelson and Rodney, but they are good for the time we laid them down. If we had to build new battleships now, we'd build them better...
...India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth, and a literal Lorelei. Years ago, returning to Britain from Australia, Mrs. Freeman-Thomas, as she then was, gave a large dinner party in the saloon...