Word: elders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elder Pitt's] attacks of gout," said the Italian paper Telegrafo last week, "were the most splendid and memorable in British history. They are definitely linked with the conquest of Canada and India. In British statesmen [gout] acts as an imperialist stimulant. Beware if Mr.Chamberlain returns to the House of Commons . . . hobbling on crutches...
Unpredictable Lord Rothermere, who took the stand this week, used to be known as "The Mystery Man of Fleet Street" in the years when he was a super-silent business manager and steadying influence on his late elder brother Lord Northcliffe, most brilliant and potent press tycoon the Empire has ever had. In recent years Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch, together with a string of prominent provincial papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle...
Early in 1914 two royal matchmakers-Nicholas II, last Tsar of All the Russias, and Marie, then Rumania's British-born Crown Princess-put their heads together and decided it would be nice for both their countries if Marie's elder son Carol and Nicholas' eldest daughter Olga were to marry. To push the romance along, Marie and her husband, Crown Prince Ferdinand, took Carol on a trip to Tsarkoye Selo, the Tsar's winter palace outside St. Petersburg, and later His Imperial Majesty & family visited the Rumanian royalty at Constantsa, on the Black...
Separated. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., 30, arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler, and Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes Chrysler, by mutual consent, after a marriage of 18 months; in Manhattan...
Practically, also, a change of Polish leadership was due, with even British Elder Statesman David Lloyd George fuming at the former Government's flight and previous oppressions. Ignace Paderewski was offered the job of President, but the old pianist, in exile since 1920 from the State he helped found, turned the job down...