Word: chalfont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is chiefly concerned with the machinations of young Mrs. Chalfont to procure the Governorship of the Island of Ardor for her husband, who is obviously the man for the job, but who is by nature too modest and retiring to fight...
...involved process of diplomatic backmail Mrs. Chalfont herself becomes deeply enmeshed. Upon learning of his wife's Haison the senile statesman assumes that her partner in crime is his pretty petitioner's spouse, and that Mrs. Chalfont holds himself, despite his many winters, in no low esteem. And so he insists that all four get divorces and he and Chalfont exchange wives How he is made aware of his egregious flatulence, how he gives the post to the deserving man, and his blanket apology to all concerned in his best House of Lords manner makes an amusing third...
...Richard Chalfont (John Williams of One, Two, Three!) has all the qualifications for Colonial Secretary to a small island. He has lived there, knows the language and people, has written thick books about the place. In addition he has an admirable wife, charming, meek little Helen Hayes. But the Earl of Darnaway has already promised the job to one of his wife's relations, a gentleman of title, many debts, not much sense. Fortunately Miss Hayes discovers that the Countess of Darnaway has had an affair with her husband's aide...
Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent a busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...