Word: fallodon
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...whimsies, was thoroughly vexed at the noise above his apartment in Adelphi Terrace, London. At 3 a.m. he sent a note of protest to the disturbers. At 5 a.m. the noise and the party ceased. The party was given by two newlyweds, David Tennant (son of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon) and Mrs. Tennant (nee Hermione Baddeley, actress). They wore orange sleeping suits of silk; the guests, too, came in blazing pajamas; many brought bottles of hair restorers, ink, gasoline, Thames water. Champagne was not lacking. After the party, Mrs. Tennant said: "Bottle and pajama parties ought to be the vogue...
There were at least a few encouraging signs-such as the Russian promise to move their troops out of Iran-that Paul Antonio's prayer had been heard. As UNO met, international affairs had returned to what wise Viscount Grey of Fallodon, in referring to another Iranian crisis of 40 years ago, had called "an equipoise of bad relations...
France had come to this crossroads through the ordeal of defeat and occupation, and through the explosive tensions of liberation. She had tasted the bitter truth in the words of Lord Grey of Fallodon: "Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty." Now, in democratic fashion, France registered her choice for the future...
Killed in Action. Captain George C. Grey, 26, Liberal, youngest member of Parliament. Elected to the House of Commons at 23 for Berwick-on-Tweed, he followed the footsteps of his late relative, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who represented the same borough at the same...
...surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord Halifax certainly represented the old Britain. But in London there was a feeling that Lord Halifax would be fine...