Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, of course, the Earl of Birkenhead is sensitive to the slightest "Orient trouble" affecting India. He keeps his counsel, and sometimes he keeps it over a glass and a cigar; but when trouble is scented the quick legal mind that made him Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22) kindles, and he speaks as he did last week, before the House of Lords...
...brought into the House of Commons. I am still more sorry that women have been admitted to juries. The plain fact is that men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating one another." Thus, last week, wrote that most respected bachelor, Lord Hugh Cecil, 57, Conservative M. P., Privy Councilor, LL.D., High Churchman, War-time Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps...
When the great dames and ladies of Britain's woman's suffrage movement read these crass words they took up the telephones, called "Regent 500," and told Lord Hugh Cecil with plaintive good humor what they thought...
...press Mrs. Pankhurst said: "Lord Hugh is a back number." Declared Lady Rhondda, famed feminine industrialist: "Of course Lord Hugh is talking perfect nonsense...
Therefore, last week, as the press wrote jocularly of "Votes for Flappers," the attitude of one so close to the present Conservative Government as Lord Hugh Cecil was of significant import. His elder brother, the Marquess of Salisbury, sits in the Baldwin Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Another brother is Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, onetime Lord Robert Cecil, famed peace-man. Hence, if the opinion of these potent Cecils upon the woman's suffrage bill is truly mirrored by the words of Lord Hugh Cecil last week, a definite faction...