Word: irwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...social assistant is another man named Hoover. In Harrison's time, this man, Irwin Hood Hoover, came to the White House as plain "Ike" Hoover, a tall, long-nosed electrician to superintend a wiring job. He stayed on and on until he became major domo, chief usher and master of White House protocol. He has a little office off the main foyer, to the right as you enter. Crisply grey of hair, vigorous of demeanor, it is he who inspects all callers, who engineers all receptions, arranges the First Lady's teas, sends the White House motor hither...
Highly agitated was His Britannic Majesty's lean and dramatically tall Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, when representatives of what might be called India's "farm bloc"-the Bihar Landholders' Association -met recently, in Calcutta, and adopted a resolution demanding for British India a new Constitution "not in blind imitation of the West...
Interpreting this as a veiled intimation that what the "farm bloc" really demands is Indian independence, Lord Irwin rushed to Calcutta and delivered what was, for an Englishman, a remarkably passionate pronouncement...
Having spoken, the tall cadaverous Viceroy stepped into his sumptuous private car and sped back to New Delhi, the glistening white and red sandstone capital of British India. There Lord Irwin busied himself in arranging a counter demonstration against Independence. Naturally it was to the Maharajas, the princes of India, many of whom are supported on their petty thrones by British might, that the Viceroy turned. Presently no less than 40 of these resplendent potentates addressed, to the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja...
When the Chamber of Princes had signified unanimous approval of these sentiments, Lord Irwin solemnly declared that this resolution was the most important which the Chamber had ever adopted...