Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the House of Commons. I am still more sorry that women have been admitted to juries. The plain fact is that men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating one another." Thus, last week, wrote that most respected bachelor, Lord Hugh Cecil, 57, Conservative M. P., Privy Councilor, LL.D., High Churchman, War-time Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps...
When the great dames and ladies of Britain's woman's suffrage movement read these crass words they took up the telephones, called "Regent 500," and told Lord Hugh Cecil with plaintive good humor what they thought...
...press Mrs. Pankhurst said: "Lord Hugh is a back number." Declared Lady Rhondda, famed feminine industrialist: "Of course Lord Hugh is talking perfect nonsense...
...Hugh Walpole has said of Young, "When our generation takes the place of the older men, I don't see anyone who gives so much promise of being first of the bunch as he does. For one thing he is a writer of beautiful prose; then he is a real creator of character. He is not confined only to personal autobiography and is developing all the time. He would be, I think, a very interesting lecturer, with all his African experience and his fine critical gift. He would have as much to say about the savages in London as about...
...Berne, Switzerland, will be sent the Yale man, Hugh R. Wilson, to succeed Hugh S. Gibson* as U. S. Minister. Keen-witted, methodical, Mr. Wilson, of a family of Chicago wholesalers, a onetime Chairman of the Yale Daily News, entered the diplomatic service as private secretary to the U. S. Minister at Lisbon. Recently he has been chief of the bureau of current information in the Department of State...