Word: ishbel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary Sir Clive Wigram. Hostess No. 1 was famed Miss Ishbel MacDonald, charity worker. Hostess No. 2 was obscure Miss Sheila MacDonald, bicycle rider, basketballer. Lunch was the merriest Dr. Bruning has eaten in a long time. As a friend of his once said: "Heinrich is more than Spartan, he is monastic...
Jennifer, like Ishbel MacDonald, was stocky, well-scrubbed, healthy, plain. Like Ishbel, Jennifer had a Famous Father, whose daily lookout she was, with no watches shared. Father, widowered and only-daughtered, was a famed novelist whose books were appreciated by the few, unread by the many, abhorred by the clergy. Jennifer and Father lived in London as in a sheltered treadmill: she ran the house, took his dictation, typed his manuscripts, chased from the quiet street the occasional catastrophe of an organ-grinder. Suddenly one day Father brought home a pretty young wife, several years younger than Jennifer. With...
...reopening of Parliament after Easter recess (450 miles in about four hours). On this wild air ride, which he has made a habit during the past two years, Mr. MacDonald serenely perused Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel by Henry Major Tomlinson. Miss Ishbel MacDonald piloted a plane for half an hour last week, aspires (so she said) to become her father's regular pilot...
With Miss Ishbel MacDonald presiding last week at a Fabian (Socialist) Society meeting in London, Fabian George Bernard Shaw predicted the fall of her father's cabinet "after the next election," flayed the British dole to unemployed: "Not only are there men who have never worked but there are children who have never known their fathers to work...
Eldest of the three MacDonald daughters is of course, Ishbel, 27, Official Hostess. Younger son Malcolm, 29, is a Labor...