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...undefined malady, aggravated by congestion of the lungs, requiring the attendance of an urologist, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Earl of Kedleston, Viscount Scarsdale, Baron Ravensdale, Lord President of The Council, died last week in his London residence on Carlton House Terrace in the 67th year of his life...
...three floors to his bedroom-once he stripped naked-closed the door in the presence of a witness who stood guard while down below three thought tests were writ- ten out and whispered around. The wizard descended. Walter Lippmann, editorial writer on the New York World, thought of "Lord Curzon in the Foreign Office last January." Houdini failed to receive the thought...
...Shaw ridicules the Third Internationale, disregarding historic processes. In this respect, the dramatist is as dull as Lord Curzon. Like other petty bourgeoisie, the Socialist Shaw favors Marxism in Russia but not in England, thereby proving ignorance of the power of Marxism...
...Curzon. The Most Honorable, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, etc., received, in the eyes of many, a most satisfactory post-that of the Lord President of the Council. Fears were entertained that he might be reappointed Foreign Secretary; and rightly enough, for as Disraeli felt about Lord John Russell, Nihil tetigit quod non perturbavit*. But, as The Westminster Gazette said: "Lord Curzon could not have returned to the Foreign Office. His role is to speak fraternally with foreign kings; and there are so few left that it is as well to lay him aside in purple and fine linen...
...where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Oswald Mosley, radical son-in-law of Marquis Curzon...