Word: dianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breadwinner is fairly civilized drawing room farce. But from this point on it develops third-act trouble. Father Battle's wife pleads with him. Mrs. Granger pretends she is in love with him, begs him to stay. Little Diana Granger wants to go away with him and be his mistress. At the final curtain, Father Battle just picks up his hat and walks off, as promised some 45 min. previously...
...Cabinet. He had planned to go to Dublin for a gay August at the horse show. He always liked horse shows. At a pre-War one he met for the second time tall, attractive Ruth Wilson, daughter of Rear Admiral Henry Braid Wilson, as she was portraying Diana leading the chase. He remarked to a surprised friend: "Some day that girl is going to be Mrs. Hurley." The third time he saw her, he proposed. They were married in 1919, have now three daughters and a son, live in a big house on Belmont Road near the Eugene Meyers. There...
Visit a British country family one of these bright spring weekends and at teatime you are likely to see such a scene as this: on the tennis-court are the Hon. Diana and the Hon. Molly, daughters of your host Lord Wilchester, playing a stiff set of tennis with the vicar of the parish and his young curate. If there is a cathedral in the neighborhood you will probably see its dean among the guests, and drinking tea with old Lady Wilchester (who is exceedingly deaf) will be a prebendary. Lord Wilchester, who owns the vicar's living...
...lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding," the official party policy. In this way some very instructive debate would be had, and in time regular Conservatives might think better of high tariffs, which would please the manufacturers...
Among so-called Bright Young People "lousy" has become a playful adjective. Even "guts" is almost a tea-table noun. But in London last week Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of Lady Diana Manners, used both these words with Victorian vigor. In a speech attacking Viscount Rothermere, blatant "British Hearst," Mr. Cooper rumbled and roared...