Word: marquess
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...Winston Churchill once quipped about the House, "is a poor guide compared with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...
...Scottish people presented to the President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess of Ailsa and the Earl of Weymss and March, the President rolled into Culzean to rest up. "No one." said one of the Scotsmen in polite warning, "will bother him or fuss...
Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...
...Peace Prize for "his disinterested but enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League as any man but Woodrow Wilson. He regarded the American President as courageous but "rather dogmatic and not having...
Night of the Garter. In Alcester, England, visitors waiting to see the Marquess of Hertford's gothic Ragley Hall illuminated by floodlights, stood before the ancient home in darkness as a single window lighted up, illuminating the forgetful marquess, who took off all his clothes unaware of being watched...