Word: fallodon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. citizens the name of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is known as that of the longtime (1905-16) British Foreign Secretary who reluctantly but vigorously led his country into the World War. Rhodes Scholars know that he is Chancellor of Oxford University. Sportsmen and naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl...
...Fallodon, near the Scottish border, Lord Grey has established two duck sanctuaries, in & about two small ponds surrounded by high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...
...Mother Oxford. In all things she behaves with dignity and decorum. Nevertheless Oxford, like any Alma Mater, needs the money of her sons. Last week if she was not actually waving her pennant, she was trying a tentative flourish. From Oxford's Chancellor, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, came a proposal to establish that most useful money-raising device, an Alumni Association. It is to be dignified with the name "Oxford Society." Promoted lately at a gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey addressed his appeal to all Oxford...
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Liberal, ornithologist, dry fly fisherman: "The Government must not be led to suppose that because the Liberals support its foreign policy, therefore they can rely on the Liberals in the last resort to keep it in office at all costs. . . . The danger of the financial position of the country is so real and great that the Liberal party should oppose increases in public expenditure and vote for a policy of economy even if this involves defeat of the Government...
Bankers Disagree. Headed by a great Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, but mustering many a Conservative in their ranks, 118 leading British bankers and industrialists issued a manifesto last week calling all schemes to ring the Empire with a tariff wall "little short of suicidal...