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Lady Cynthia Mosley (she prefers to be called Mrs. Mosley), wife of Labor-Socialist Member of Parliament Oswald Mosley, daughter of the late great Marquis of Curzon, complained last week that she and her husband are being snubbed and cut by English society because of their near-Red political obstreperousness...
...London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret...
...Socialist-intellectual. Hilarious was the contest for the Parliamentary seat from Smethwick (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926), wherein Betty Baldwin electioneered for the Conservative candidate and Oliver Baldwin successfully championed the candidacy of a brother throwback-Socialist, Mr. Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late pinnacle of Conservatism, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston...
...that moment the conference saw a strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...
...confused with the late George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess of Kedleston, onetime British Foreign Secretary, or with his nephew, the present Richard Nathaniel Curzon, Viscount Scarsdale...