Word: debrett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp-eyed Britons, poring over copies of Burke's Peerage and Debrett's, noted an odd contradiction in the listing for Sir Robert Dillon, 44, eighth Baronet, of Lismullen in Ireland. Burke's indicated that Sir Robert was heirless, and his nearest blood relative was a spinster sister, Laura Maude Dillon, 43. Debrett's took a rosier view and bold-faced the name of a younger brother, Dr. Laurence Michael Dillon, to signify that he was the heir to the baronetcy...
...Debrett's knew a secret. Its editor, C. F. Hankinson, had discovered an amended birth certificate that transformed sister Laura Maude into brother Laurence Michael. Newsmen last week found the doctor himself at Philadelphia, aboard the British freighter, City of Bath, on which he serves as medical officer. Bearded, pipe-smoking Dr. Dillon explained that he was a victim of hypospadias, that he had sensed in his teens he was different from other girls, and that his voice "became deeper than a female's but higher than a male's" when he was 20. From...
...Ireland Sir Robert said that Laurence might get the title, but little else, because "I can will my estate to whomever I choose." Then, quoting the Dillon ancestral motto, "Whilst I breathe I hope," Sir Robert added: "It is not yet too late for me to have a family." Debrett's Editor Hankinson believes there is no question that Dr. Dillon is the legal heir, announces firmly: "I have always been of the opinion that a person has all rights and privileges of the sex that is, at a given moment, recognized...
...royal dukes (all of whom are also princes), "His Royal Highness." But with that settled, most people went right on calling him Prince Philip just as they had before, and Philip himself confessed that he preferred the shorter title. Even the editors respectively of Burke's Peerage and Debrett's, the two recognized bluebooks of British nobility, could not agree on whether he was really a prince...
...with million-dollar chips, and on the same fateful turn, TV shows stake their survival, performers their jobs and networks their reputations. Every eye in TV is firmly fixed on the numbers that do what the batting average does for baseball, the big board for Wall Street and Debrett's for the peerage...