Word: irwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years he will be known as Lord Irwin, Viceroy and Governor General of India...
...Viceroy. As the son and heir of the aged Viscount Halifax (87-year-old Groom of the Bedchamber to Edward of Wales), Mr. E. F. L. Wood has need of his interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles...
Indian Retrospect. Lord Irwin succeeds as Viceroy the former Lord Chief Justice of England, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, son of the late Joseph Isaacs, a merchant in the city of London. Lord Reading is perhaps the classic example cited to prove that ability and application suffice to catapult the merest of commoners to the heights in this 20th Century...
...they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
Sabatini is to the fore again with The Lion's Skin (Houghton, Mifflin). Connubial conventions go glimmering in Wallace Irwin's Mated (Putnam) and Reginald Wright Kauffman's Free Love (Macaulay). There is a full-blooded tale called Carib Gold (Bobbs-Merrill) by onetime U. S. All-Around Athletic Champion Ellery H. Clark, and a new Alaskan tale, Child of the Wild (Cosmopolitan) by Edison Marshall (The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges, Seward's Folly...