Word: ishbel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apple-cheeked Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of onetime Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, was elected, last week, as was also her brother, Malcolm, to the London County Council...
...ought surely to have noticed that Mac spells his name with the capital D. Ishbel is not 24, but 22. She did not read greetings from her father. She made her own speech at the great Century Theatre meeting of the Jewish Daily Forward, without a scrap paper, expressing in one sentence her father's regrets for his absence...
...authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive credence in the matter of her age, TIME requested and received the following telegram: "BORN MARCH TWO 1903 (Signed) Ishbel MacDonald...
...Miss Ishbel MacDonald, 24, buxom, serious, speaking with an even more pronounced Scotch burr than her father, accompanied him. Anxious, she conferred with Cunard officials who were unable to supply an outside cabin on the short notice given them. At that moment appeared Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen who offered their spacious outside cabin. Sir Joseph Duveen (Art Objects) was insistent. Yet soon a Cunard office boy rushed aboard with information that another suitable cabin had been canceled...
...Expressed sincere relief at news that onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now visiting the U. S. (TIME, April 18), was rapidly recovering at Philadelphia from his attack of tonsilitis (TIME, Jan. 25), while his daughter, Ishbel Macdonald, pinch-spoke? for her father before various gatherings, which he had promised to address...