Word: mackworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldsters to whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...
...chief occupation she regards the editorship of Time & Tide, which she founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage. She was aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. She has fought for the right of peeresses to sit in the House of Lords. She scorns feminine...
...Status of Women," Here was a subject near and dear to the heart of Helen Rogers Reid, and on which she could have given competent testimony. But she left the symposium to her peers, notably three women who spoke by radio from overseas. First of these was Margaret Haig Mackworth, Britain's Viscountess Rhondda...