Word: lothian
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...bound by strictest protocol. But one day last week ribbon and tape went out the White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This 57-year-old Christian Scientist, a bachelor, secretary of the Rhodes Trust since 1925. War-time secretary to David Lloyd...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...Ronald Lindsay, they sent 57-year-old Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, owner of 28,000 English and Scottish acres, onetime journalist, Wartime secretary to David Lloyd George. He is an ambitious man who long ago "arrived" in British affairs by hard work. Accused (he denies it) of being a member of the famed, talkative Cliveden Set and of having helped oust Anthony Eden, he favored appeasement until he lost belief in Adolf Hitler's humanity. Then he favored a British military alliance with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary...
...reporters who had been invited to the garden party also received bids for their wives, just like other people. At one stroke the Ambassador had undone half the damage done by his U. S.-born wife, and set a standard for press relations which his successor, brilliant, erratic Lord Lothian, who used to be Prime Minister Lloyd George's Private Secretary Philip Henry Kerr, will have to live up to when he comes to take over the Embassy this summer...
...plan won its first battle when I' received an excellent press, ranging from Dorothy Thompson's eulogy to Walter Winchell's laconic, "Swelli" Lord Lothian, who will soon take over Britain's Washington embassy, favors the plan, and the Roosevelt family has bee bombarded with copies of "Union Now" into line...