Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Houston expressed in her magazine an uncritical admiration for Benito Mussolini, "the greatest Ruler in the World today," and for Adolf Hitler. To her, neither of these somewhat frightening characters could do wrong, nor could such standpatters as Canada's rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, onetime Premier...
With little advertising except a two-page "Register" of gloomy provincial hotels, the Saturday Review was most interesting when Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top...
On the Review's inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard...
*Lady Houston was greatly upset when Edward VIII abdicated. An example of her verse, to commemorate his departure from England:
A generation ago, Elinor Glyn was a name that caused many a ruction between the world and his wife. To the world, Author Glyn was hot stuff; to his wife, she was a Creature who wrote Vile Books. The post-War world can hardly remember what all the shouting was...