Word: fallodon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GREY OF FALLODON-George Macauley Trevelyan-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Tender biography of England's Liberal Foreign Minister (1905-1916) whose vocations were birds and fishing, his avocation, politics...
...stones gather moss but moss will not endow new professorships, laboratories, research projects. In the things that only money can buy, Oxford has fallen woefully behind. Five years ago the then Chancellor of Oxford, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, led in the formation of an Oxford Society with practical aims identical to those of a U. S. alumni association. Not until last month, however, did Oxford stretch out its ancient hand in an actual Oxford Appeal for funds. Last week, in a transatlantic broadcast, "Great Tom" of Christ Church solemnly tolled and the University's Chancellor, Lord Halifax, extended...
Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind...
...Death drew nearer, the permanent civil servants of Britain's Foreign Office spoke of "Uncle Arthur" last week as destined to rank in history with Lord Salisbury, Grey of Fallodon and Curzon. To these civil servants, who have seen his League policies of Peace and Disarmament broken one by one and Mr. Henderson himself treated as an interloper at Geneva by his British successors, he was a great Foreign Secretary. When Death came at 8 p. m. on the Sabbath, London's Times said on Monday: "He was the embodiment of the qualities and aspirations of the Labor...
...five years of his reign, however, have been years in which personality has counted for less and less in politics; "the King's reign has been full of great events and of movements of which we cannot yet forecast the end." Perhaps some of his subjects--Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Mr. David Lloyd George--have influenced the course of events more than...