Word: clarendon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, however, the 6th Earl of Clarendon, the Lord Chamberlain (alias, censor of Britain's stage and literature), keeps an eagle eye out not only for theatrical obscenity, profanity, sacrilege and references to royalty but also for possible insults to heads of foreign States. Last week, perusing the book and lyrics of a new London revue, Censor Lord Clarendon spotted a song entitled Even Hitler Had a Mother, hastily banned the piece. The forbidden ditty...
...muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...
...Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends...
This year's Triangle show is set in Restoration England. Vaporous Charles II, called to the throne from his nightshirt, wants to purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle...