Word: hilton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes to 72. If the bill is finally passed, it will mean an addition of 4,500,000 women, making a total of 12,400,000 women against 10,500,000 men. All the women M. P.'s supported the bill except the Duchess of Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson. The Duchess said that since a conference had set the age limit, a conference should revise it. She also commented adversely upon giving the vote to "young tinkers and hawkers" who had no opportunity to know anything about politics. This drew from Rhys Davies, Under Secretary of State...
...Waverly is quite fortunate and gets a nomination, as also does Concord Depot. Dinwiddie gets a Postmaster; I know not why; Meadows of Dan also gets a Postmaster, and so do Prospect, Beaver Dam, Shipman, Bridgewater, Disputanta, Fincastle, Hilton Village, and last but not least is Saltville...
...well-known London restaurant, the eight lady Members oif Parliament will sit down to a prandial celebration. Those who accepted the invitation: The Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), Lady Astor (Conservative), Mrs. Wintringham (Liberal), Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative), Miss Margaret Bondfield (Labor). Those to be heard from were: Lady Terrington (Liberal), Mrs. D. Jewson and Miss Susan Lawson (Laborites...
Lady Astor (Conservative) and Mrs. Wintringham (Liberal) wife of a former Speaker, were the only women successful at the last elections. Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative) won her seat in a by-election...
...difficult to say; but it is a rule which seems to hold in almost every form of sport. Some of the most illuminating examples of the truth of this statement are to be round in Anglo-American golf competitions. Walter Travis won in England in 1930, and Harold Hilton duplicated his feat at least once in America, but except for these two, foreign invaders have very rarely triumphed over native sons. There have, of course, been others. Jimmy Wilde, for example, probably the world's greatest flyweight, could win anywhere, and the brothers Doherty of England were as easily supreme...