Word: marquessate
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...phrase carries quite a kick when applied to Castlereagh, the forgotten second marquess of Londonderry, but becomes flabby when so ineptly used against Shaw, literary cannon-cracker of recent times...
...long day, the 80-year-old Marquess of Salisbury had viewed many things with alarm. He was horrified (1934) at the idea that his government might offer India dominion status-"the ideal of Gandhi!" He thought (1936) King Edward's abdication "a disaster that left [the body politic] mutilated and torn." He considered (1937) that allowing divorce on the ground of desertion or incurable in sanity would "launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot...
These sound humanitarian grounds are not likely to satisfy India's Moslems. In 1939 the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage (usual season: November through January). Moslems were indignant. Berlin made fast & furious propaganda throughout the East, and the Viceroy had to yield. Though the war has kited shipping costs, India subsidized shipowners to continue the pilgrimage at prewar fares through last season. This time, the Viceroy is already coping with so much Indian unrest that...
...moves that meant total war against the Congress party, with the backing of the Viceroy, the 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, and the Home Government, the Council: 1) ordered strict control of the national press; 2) gave provincial authorities power over local governments; 3) announced that shops closing their doors as a part of a general strike would be immediately taken over by the Government. When the hour came the British operated with extraordinary efficiency...
Before the war began, the Marquess of Linlithglow, a shining example of Britain's Empire minded ruling class, was Viceroy of India; he still holds that office. And during this interval the people of India have had on indication that the vague promises of independence given to them were destined to become anything but unattainable visions. Sir stafford Cripp's widely acclaimed mission involved nothing more than a reiteration of previously discussed propositions, differing from its predecessors simply by virtue of the status and reputation of Cripps himself...