Word: buckinghams
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...brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest heaving, at the end of his trial, Judge Nash Buckingham of Memphis said: "I haven't seen but one or two better heats than that in 17 years...
...when her mother died; she had never had a beau, was so painfully shy that she would hide in a bedroom when her cousin, Hollis Gale, came to visit. She and her brother had been kept under their mother's thumb in a suite in the Buckingham Hotel for years; though they inherited millions they stayed on in the familiar rooms...
...when Mary was 46, the Buckingham was torn down. Brother & sister moved to a seven-room, $30-a-day suite at the faintly seedy Hotel Seymour on West 45th Street. The brother died in 1925. Mary went out seldom after that-usually only around the corner to the ancient, prim Fifth Avenue Bank where she kept a checking account of $1,000,000. In 1927 Mary shut herself into her suite for good...
...kept busy dispatching Attlee on his wartime duties. Then came peace, and in 1945 Violet Attlee took the wheel of the Hillman to drive her husband over the length and breadth of Britain as he campaigned. One day soon after the election, Violet drove the new Prime Minister to Buckingham Palace to kiss King George's hand...
...fifth day, Violet had driven 700 miles and Clem had made 18 speeches. By the time the Attlees reach Downing Street once more they will have covered some 1,500 miles. Friends were not sure whether Violet Attlee wants this tour, like the last, to end in Buckingham Palace. Some thought that maybe she would rather drive the Hillman into the neat garage of the Attlee's cozy new home, Cherry Cottage, in Buckinghamshire...