Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike Manhattan, which keeps its art respectable by means of the criminal code, London has a personal censor-the Lord Chamberlain. When Potiphar's Wife was announced for London's Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne...
...noticed that Premier Sarwat Pasha of Egypt stepped from the train only to slip off in the company of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. Theirs was the meeting of real importance...
...Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly Ahmed Fuad was soon shown into a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants?not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to sample it, and two of George V's physicians skilled in antidotes...
...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton, to Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...
...Half of the 1925 Peace Prize was awarded to U. S. Vice President Dawes; the rest of the 1925 prize and all of the 1926 prize were divided among Foreign Ministers Briand, Chamberlain and Stresemann...