Word: ishbel
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...Ishbel, apple-cheeked daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, received a telegram from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada saying that as a Christmas present a 10,000-ft. peak near Banff was henceforth to be known as Mount Ishbel...
Crowds of laboring men and poorly dressed women cried "Good old Mac!" as the tall Laborite and Daughter Ishbel passed through the Customs shed in grimy Liverpool. There were more cheers at London's grimier Euston station. But there was no such spontaneous, frenzied welcome from all classes as crippled Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden received when he brought home his piece of "Reparations Sponge Cake" from The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. MacDonald was not "chaired" (carried in British triumph shoulder high) as was Mr. Snowden. In his empty hands he brought only Peace...
Sturdily Miss Ishbel MacDonald refused to speak or write for pay while her Prime Minister father was the guest of President Herbert Hoover (TIME, Oct. 14, 21). But safe back in England last week, the Scotch lassie put by a tidy bit for three articles sold to the New York Evening Post. Like Ishbel's eyes, the articles sparkled yet were thoughtful. They answered the question: "What does Ishbel MacDonald think about...
...Ishbel's "Engagement." Perceptibly reserved was Miss Ishbel MacDonald last week as she trotted in the wake of her tall, halo-headed sire. Perhaps she was repenting an exuberance. Jocularly, one morning, she had greeted the appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!" Promptly and absurdly they were rumored engaged. Baron Arnold, British Paymaster General, is accompanying the MacDonald party at his own expense, has been mooted as the next British Ambassador at Washington-suspected of being a "Colonel House." Intensely embarrassed, especially by reports...
...Ishbel, because her father is 'proud to be a radical' was snubbed [in Washington]. Of course, there were the official dinners and the assignment of embassy equeries as her constant companions-but the young men assigned were not of the attractive types."-Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. in Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror...