Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serena Blandish was born near the docks of London. When she grew up, she was carried off by a Countess who wished her to make a brilliant marriage. This Serena was incompetent to do. She accepted a ring from a Jewish jeweler and she accepted a luncheon engagement with Lord Ivor Cream. The ring led to embarrassments and the luncheon engagement led, not to another engagement of a more permanent nature, but to tea. Martin, the Countess's butler, gloomily observed: "A lady who stays to tea where she has been invited to luncheon never gets engaged...
...Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could wish for anything better in the way of representatives. . . . Curzon was born...
...Lord High Chancellor's song in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe...
...police on duty at the gates receive parcels of stuff which are delivered in person. One old lady rode up from the country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through...
Died. The Noble Earls of Howe and of Egmont, on the same day. Richard George Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...