Word: garters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth, Duchess of York and Albert, Duke of York prepared months ago this Christmas Card apropos the Sovereign. At a moment when everyone is coupling King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, this couples King Edward III and Lady Salisbury. She has dropped her garter, courtiers are tittering, and the chivalrous King is about to master the situation by putting on the thing himself and making the Order of the Garter the most exalted form of British knighthood...
...Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been one of the co-makers of the Treaty of Locarno...
...father's setting sun, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke to the Knighthood of the Garter, a rank customarily reserved for peers. Then Sir Austen faded into the Conservative Party's greatest wheel horse, wearing his father's monocle, not the orchid...
Industries Fair and pulling up his trouser leg to reveal that he wears British garter-less, elastic-top socks...
...this would be bettered if Sir Samuel Hoare came a cropper, for he was then Mr. Chamberlain's chief rival to be future occupant of No. 10 Downing St. Something had to be decided quickly and Chancellor Chamberlain's respected halfbrother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter and Nobel Peace Prizeman, was zealous in telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons scene the Prime Minister, after trying to bluff "The Deal" through with the claim that if only his lips could be unsealed...