Word: esmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another daughter, Jessica, married the late Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's Communist nephew...
...first-rate historical novel represents a strong and magical act of imagination: a great deal of learning may have gone into it, but the scaffolding has then been removed. Thackeray's Henry Esmond and Robert Graves's I, Claudius put the reader in the presence of the past; Proud Destiny puts before him only popularized history...
...Rothermeres' diehard Tory friends had for years spoken of Owen as "that notorious leftist." They could only hope that Esmond and Ann Rothermere knew what they were doing. At least, the Rothermeres knew what they wanted: more zip and more readers for the Daily Mail (now 1,900,000), which has lagged far behind Beaverbrook's giant Express (3,700,000) and the tabloid, Labor-loving Mirror (3,400,000) since the Government took the lid off circulations. Hard-handsome, hard-talking, hard-drinking Frank Owen, once an eager Beaver-boy himself, seemed...
...takes a dim view of her sisters, who include: 1) Unity, famed Hitler-loving Wagnerian blonde; 2) Diana, wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World War II in jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist who has ridden as a jockey in the Grand National Steeplechase...
...Esmond Rowley...