Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...response to a general demand from her mother's friends that some sort of a permanent record of her mother's life be given to the world, Miss Rachel Weigall has written a book* about Lady Rose Weigall. Lady Rose (who died in 1921) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Burghersh, afterwards the eleventh Earl and Countess of Westmoreland. She married Henry Weigall, D.L., J.P., artist...
...with whom Lady Rose used to play; Prince Hohenlohe; Count Halzfeldt; Jenny Lind, singer; Meyerbeer, composer; Mendelssohn, famed pianist. In Vienna reference is made to the Emperor Franz Josef; the Empress Elizabeth; Prince Metternich. Journeys from Berlin to Calais, made by post, entailed crossing Belgian territory, and even here Lord and Lady Westmoreland were received with open arms by the Belgian Royal Family. Mention is made of King Leopold I and of his daughter, Princess Charlotte, later the unhappy Empress of Mexico, now mad and confined in a castle in Belgium (TIME, July 30). In England, glimpses are given...
...only other member of the party known to be present was Lord Hugh Cecil (Lord Robert's brother), dubbed by Lady Astor " our leading medievalist" on account of his anti-feminist attitude. Said Lord Hugh...
...critical opinion: THE MAN WHO ATE THE POPOMACK-W. J. Turner-Brentanos ($1.50). The popomack is a fruit- the rarest and most delicious fruit known to mankind. It had only one drawback-its unpardonable smell- and the fact that that smell transferred itself to anyone who ate the fruit. Lord Revoir ate of the popomack. What happened to him then is the theme of this extraordinary allegorical play by a young British poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small...
...York Evening Journal (Hearst) printed pictures of Lord and Lady Lascelles (Princess Mary), of the Duke and Duchess of York, of Lady Louise Mountbatten and her recent fiance, Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, and of King George and Cupid. Over each lady's heart appeared a money bag and from cupid's bow issued arrows piercing to each money bag. The story accompanying these pictures was written by Margery Rex (the name of any young lady whom Mr. Hearst may employ to write this type of story). The narrative told how Lady Louise Mountbatten had jilted the Crown...