Word: hoggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become an ordinary insurance company and increase its income from outside investments. But members are averse to such change. They prize the clubby atmosphere of the high marble halls where the tie that binds is mostly old school. The membership, at last count, included four former cabinet members (Hogg, Maudling, Sandys and Thorneycroft), more than 50 M.P.s, mainly Tory, Tycoons Charles Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson, Lord Harlech, five dukes, eight marquesses, 39 earls, 90 knights and 113 baronets...
Abruptly terminating his marriage that night, Enderby returns to England and is resurrected from an attempted suicide by a psychiatrist named Wapenshaw. Taking his mother's maiden name, Hogg, Enderby renounces poetry and assumes a new life as a bartender at Piggy's Sty. But try as he may, he cannot deny his muse, and she accompanies him on a desperate flight to Tangier after the murderer of a pop singer has pushed his smoking gun into bystander Enderby's hand. Disguised as an Arab beggar, Enderby plans a real crime--the murder of Rawliffe, a fellow poet...
Soon Vesta has made the poet "normal" and "sane" by making him no poet at all. Brainwashed into a wholly new identity, Enderby emerges as Piggy Hogg, an inarticulate London bartender and retread "useful citizen"-the welfare state's version of death and transfiguration...
...fact, take a lot of liberties. It appeared under a headline reading THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE LIFE OF HAROLD WILSON, with a picture of Wilson, Mrs. Wilson and his personal political secretary, Mrs. Marcia Williams. Miss Lewis wrote that "during the Profumo scandal, the Tories' Quintin Hogg nearly brought the House down when he tried to defend Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, saying he didn't understand the fuss about Profumo's private life, since there were 'adulterers on the Opposition front bench.' That was the closest anyone has come in public to making...
...suit against the rock 'n' rollers, Wilson was represented by none other than Quintin Hogg, who announced that "the Prime Minister has for some years been aware that various false and malicious rumors have been spread concerning his personal character and integrity. He has always considered it right to treat them with the contempt they deserved." Now, said Hogg, Wilson wanted to "make plain his determination to establish the complete falsity of these rumors...