Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon evident that the political pot was boiling. After a two-hour conference Lord Runciman's chief aide, Mr. Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin flew to London to confer with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax. He was sa: to have reported: 1) that Führer Henlin was virtually a "straw man," repeatedly refusing to commit himself and saying he must first consult Berlin; 2) that unless Britain again issued a firm warning to Germany, Lord Runciman might not be able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann...
This week Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin was back in Czechoslovakia, he and Lord Runciman conferred with Führer Henlein, and at these conferences there was "fearful rowing" according to reports. Viscount Runciman was said to have told Herr Henlein that he must stop inciting the Sudeten Germans to acts of violence...
...came the tale of a London dinner party conversation between Germany's new 100% Nazi Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, and the beauteous 23-year-old Duchess of Roxburghe, a granddaughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. Dr. Dirksen: "I suppose you get your fine black eyes from your Scottish ancestry?" The Duchess: "No, Your Excellency, I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grandfathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild...
LAMENT FOR A MAKER-Michael Innes -Dodd, Mead ($2). A poet-madman, lord of gloomy Castle Erchany, is found dead at the foot of his castle tower. Ingenious plot; scholarly, leisurely style; copious Scottish dialect...
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