Word: kinross
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister attached his name and family seal to a document renouncing six ancient peerages. Thus, less than a week after taking office, the 14th Earl of Home became Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, commoner, and so qualified for election to Parliament from a safe Tory seat (Kinross and West Perthshire, Scotland's second-biggest electoral district). Said he: "I don't feel any different." But Britons, who at first were widely skeptical of Lord Home, were already beginning to feel different about Sir Alec...
Wealth and generations of superiority, says Hall, have made the nobility independent of public opinion. "The divorce court today represents more happiness than the silver wedding parties of our fathers," says Lord Kinross (only one marriage dissolved). The prevalence of silver or even golden divorces does not seem to dimmish the peerage's optimism about marriage; Earl Russell took a fourth wife at 80, and the Marquess of Winchester, now 99, tried for the third time...
...minor comic roles, Yann Weynouth, Terrence Currier, Beryl Kinross-Wright, and Kenneth. Tigar are all delightful. In a production as well paced as this one an indulgence in a little excessive mugging (of which Tiger is guilty) and overstated flippancy. (Bery! Kinross-Wright's only excess) are easily forgivable, at moments even very funny...
...Henning. As Professor Kroll, the pompous but observant conservative, Richard B. Stone heroically varies his redundant lines. Had he used his torso as flexibly, the visual effect would have been similarly less monotonous. Joel Crothers as the opportunistic radical leader whose dreams never exceed his political capabilities, and Beryl Kinross-Wright as a housekeeper, turn in two excellent performances...
Severest test of the drug's powers was made by Houston's Dr. John Kinross-Wright on state prisoners at Huntsville, Texas. Patients treated there, he reported, were "classical psychopathic personalities with lifelong histories of antisocial behavior." In the penitentiary they were mutilating themselves, setting fires and starting fights. On Librium most of them became "placid and alert, despite their tension-provoking environment...