Word: iveagh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebutted the Countess of Iveagh, M. P.: "Then why not give widowers something for nothing? . . . Furthermore the bill discriminates against spinsters, who may be quite as worthy as widows...
...diffused golden light, her fingers quiet upon silent strings. One Guitar Player was bought in London in 1896 by John G. Johnson and has reposed, since his death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs who viewed the collection of Lord Iveagh, shown to the public in London last week, discovered another Guitar Player, very similar to the Guitar Player in the Johnson collection. This they said with one accord, was the genuine Vermeer; the painting in the U. S. was a replica, a copy, an imitation, anything except the original Guitar Player...
...Lady Iveagh, daughter-in-law of the late head of the Guiness Brewery, became the seventh woman member* of the present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
...good-grade Britishers know, the owner "of Elveden Hall is the luxury-loving Viscount Elveden, first Earl of Iveagh. At 78 he is one of the most notable British exponents of la chasse de luxe. His huntsmen-guests are dined wherever they chance to find themselves at mealtimes, with the aid of an especially built traveling kitchen. Throughout his almost limitless estates there are scattered more than a sufficient number of hunting lodges, at which opulent shelter...
Others said, "The King is reported to find the informality at Elveden refreshing. It is significant that Colonel Walter Guinness, Lord Iveagh's younger son, has recently been appointed Minister of Agriculture in succession to E. F. L. Wood, who will go to India as Viceroy, succeeding Lord Reading...