Word: lothian
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...nowhere in Washington was the tension more concentrated than in the pinkish-brick British Embassy that stood on its hill below the Naval Observatory. And it was concentrated there on the calm, portly, six-foot figure of the British Ambassador, Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Karr), Marquess of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle, and holder of five other hereditary titles which, come British victory or British defeat, were not likely to mean much in the future...
...Yale occurred the first of two extraordinary events in Sandburg's extraordinary week. There Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., rising to speak to alumni, seized the occasion to speak to the whole nation. Lord Lothian's subject was the British fleet...
...Columbia, 22,000 commencement visitors cheered British Ambassador Lord Lothian as he was kudized, heard President Nicholas Murray Butler exclaim (by proxy): "The call is for every civilized human being who believes in justice, in liberty and in public morals. The bell is ringing...
Reminding Columbia University alumni that Dante "reserved the lowest rung in hell for those who were 'neither for God nor against Him but only for themselves,' " British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian added "That is one reason why the democracies are in hell today...
...afternoon a crow perched over the State Department entrance reserved for diplomats. As Great Britain's Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian, strode in, the crow cawed. A little crowd of onlookers laughed. Up the steps, through the door walked tall, tanned Hans Thomsen of Germany. Caw, caw, went the crow. Henrik de Kauffmann followed later. Caw, caw. Embattled Norway's Mr. de Morgenstierne, then Sweden's Wollmar Filip Bostrom came and went. Caw, caw. The superstitious crowd no longer laughed...