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Viscount Brentford, famed as Sir William ("Jix'') Joynson-Hicks during his Mrs. Grundyish term as Home Secretary (1924-29). with emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Red Slaves | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...heroic city of Mons is known to smart Belgians as the seat of a somewhat narrow-minded and Mrs. Grundyish local aristocracy. Therefore when Swedish-born Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium visited Mons some weeks ago, she was believed to have committed a thoroughgoing faux pas by producing her small gold cigaret case, at the close of a Civic High Tea, and snapping her cosmopolitan lighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM -: Royal Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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