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...jointly by the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Sir John Simon, highest feed British barrister and august Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 30). As the Tribunal sat, last week, the small gallery was crammed with smartest folk, including Margot, famed Countess of Oxford and Asquith. In the House of Commons Right Honorable Members repeatedly referred to the actions of the Scotland Yard Police as constituting a "Shame! (Hear! Hear!)" and a "DAMNABLE SHAME! (Cheers...
...best people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under her hawk nose, Premier Baldwin, in a topper, Ishbel Macdonald with her father, a crowd of college men wearing golf clothes to show their nonchalance, a host of pretty people who bowed to other people who did not know them, went up the stairs...
Engaged. Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 22, fourth Viscount Hardinge and aide-de-camp to Lord Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, and Miss Margot Fleming, of Wynwards, Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, granddaughter of Sir Sandford Fleming, one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific...
...child sat mouse-still. Possibly he was awed by the nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
...striking contrast with the simple taste of the late Lord Oxford was that of "Margot," Countess of Oxford and Asquith, who permitted and participated in, last week, an ostentatious mourning service in Westminster Abbey. Belated, this took place on the day following the actual funeral. Formal, it drew phalanxes of potent Britons as well as the diplomatic corps...