Word: haig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jewels and gold and the most important piece of regalia, was being carried by the elderly Marquess of Salisbury, Lord High Steward of England; that among the nine pages supporting the King's robe were three young sons of World War heroes, inheritors of their titles: Earl Haig, Earl Jellicoe, Earl Kitchener; that because of an ancient squabble over precedent, the King's golden spurs, symbol of knighthood, were carried one apiece by Lord Hastings and Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman...
...country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every cinema and an American no matter where you are. And sometimes you're awfully glad...
...fairly objective reporter. Merrily he writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour we went on in this way, shouting or firing at lighted windows, racing through suspect streets. No one fired on us, thank God! Then they drove us home, running...
Collector Isham was a onetime lieutenant colonel on Sir Douglas Haig's staff, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He sent no cables but appeared at Malahide Castle in person, and over the teacups the deal was done. Isham had promised Lord Talbot not to persuade the family to sell anything, and he stuck to his word. But when Lady Talbot asked him if one of the papers (a letter from Goldsmith) had any value-"What sort of thing? A hundred pounds sort of thing?" -and he replied, 'I think ten times that more like...
...underpants, telephone books, odds of food, hundreds of wire coat hangers, and milk bottles. Speaking of bottles, enough empty booze bottles of to supply an army. And the fellers have good taste in liquor for the most part. They run to pretty good whiskies, lots of Black and White, Haig and Haig, and Jameson a little too much cheap stuff, perhaps. As far as gins goes, they get in poor stuff, but there is a goodly quantity of London...