Word: esmonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet given recently by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador, was startled by his fork...
...Baron Beaverbrook then to achieve his consuming ambition? Will he become Prime Minister? Will he then make Viscount Rothermere's only son, Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, British Ambassador to Somewhere, as that young man and his doting father hope? Even in the face of last week's "miracle" such a development seemed remote?but the old guard politicians must work fast to avert...
...Mlle Simone Thion de la Chaume: the women's golf championship of France (fifth time), beating Mlle Diana Esmond in the finals at St. Germain, 5 & 4. ¶The Yale polo team: the intercollegiate championship, beating Princeton u to c in the finals, at Red Bank, N. J. ¶Stocky, black-haired Julius Seligson of Lehigh: the Eastern intercollegiate tennis championship, beating Clifford Sutter of Tulane in the finals in Brooklyn...
Guilty. Sir Esmond has discovered nothing new, but his official confirmation is of historical value. Soviet law from the first has disenfranchised the previously privileged and exalted classes in Russia: the nobility, the priesthood, members of the former fighting and civil services. Excerpt from the Ovey report...
...Persecution." Most judges and statesmen do not regard enforcement of any law enacted by the legislature of a sovereign state as "persecution." Sir Esmond Ovey, trained in the British Foreign Office tradition of using words exactly and not loosely (of "saying what one means and meaning what one says"), concludes with the regret of a Churchman forced to give the Devil his due: "There is no religious persecution in Russia in the strict sense of the term 'persecution,' and no case has been discovered of a priest or anyone else being punished for the practice of religion...