Word: moray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their Lordships did not thus succeed until after a public breakdown, apropos the bill, had been suffered recently in their House by the 18th Earl of Moray, a decorated War veteran whose behavior was such that British press associations at first suppressed the story altogether and even London correspondents cabled only garbled versions. What happened was that Lord Moray boasted of having "married an American girl in Paris," explaining: "Through the careful forethought of my mother-in-law, I can therefore get a divorce in Scotland or America!" From this the Noble Lord switched into totally irrelevant remarks about...