Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939, edited by Nigel Nicolson. A rare and engaging eyewitness account of the turbulent '30s, culled from the daily diary of a civilized Englishman who seemingly went everywhere and knew everybody...
...CONGDON Harold Matson Co. Inc. Manhattan
Theirs was an odd marriage. While Harold was going everywhere-meeting here with Duff Cooper, there with Lord Beaverbrook, growling at Churchill for failing to muster sufficient opposition to Hitler-Vita remained secluded at Sissinghurst, the Tudor castle they had bought in Kent. She was a strangely masculine woman who wore breeches and gaiters in winter and linen slacks in summer, and who often said that her one enduring regret was that she was not born a boy. Still, Vita was enchantingly feminine where Harold was concerned. Her letters to him were filled with tenderness, as were...
...probability, their correspondence set some kind of record, for they wrote to each other every day when they were apart. Yet Vita steadfastly refused to take part in Harold's busy life, even turned down his plea to make a single token appearance at his side when he successfully campaigned for Parliament...
...that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted, "Raymond [Mortimer] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this ghastly?' Eddy [Sackville-West] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this hell?' Margot Oxford rings me up and says, 'Now, Harold, you must agree he is a great man.' I say, 'Not at all.' 'You are as bad as Violet [Bonham Carter],' she snaps; 'he is the greatest Englishman that ever lived.'" For all his preoccupation with ominous world events, Nicolson still found time...