Word: christabel
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...Shelley's brand of radicalism-"all green tea and fine feelings. ..." But he was reassured when he observed that Shelley was "as perfect a gentleman as ever crossed a drawing-room." Soon they were having a fine romantic time together. One midnight Byron was reciting Coleridge's Christabel, had reached the lines...
...first investiture of the new Edwardian reign at Buckingham Palace. Trooping gravely in came the distinguished Britons who figured in the last New Year's Honors List (TIME, Jan. 13), which beloved George V approved but did not live to sign. Of these the most famed is Feminist Christabel Pankhurst, who became at the hands of Edward VIII a sedately honored Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Royal Air Force Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton, London Police Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, to be a viscount; Miss Jackson, private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's wife, Lucy, to be an officer. Pianist Myra Hess to be a Commander, oldtime Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to be a Dame Commander, of the Order of the British Empire...
Divorced. John Hugo Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill, 39; by Lady Ampthill, the former Christabel Hart; after 13 years of litigation; in London. Grounds: misconduct. To Lady Ampthill was awarded custody of their child, the Hon. Geoffrey Erskine Russell, whose paternity, denied by Lord Ampthill, was established by the House of Lords after Lady Ampthill had testified that her husband had once paid a somnambulant visit to her bedchamber...
...bride, handsome, wholesome, dark-browed Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 33, daughter of an ancient fighting family of Border Scots, was given a total of five tiaras by the groom's family...