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...CONGRESS OF VIENNA (312 pp.)-Harold Nicolson-Harcourt, Brace...
...however, M.P. Harold Nicolson told me, along with a group of American students in England at the time, an even more Churchillian statement which the then rising man had made about his then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Said Winston Churchill: "He would make a good mayor in a small town in a lean year...
Soon after Victorian England's great Poet Laureate died in 1892, the younger generation began discrediting his work. 'I felt a wave of shame," admitted Critic Harold Nicolson, "at having ever admired anything so smug and insincere. . . ." In the giddy 1920s scarcely any of the brilliant young critics or poets doubted that Alfred, Lord Tennyson was The Forgotten Poet, and deservedly...
...Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...
Guest artists of increasing distinction accepted invitations to appear. Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., endeared herself by threatening to pull Joad's beard. The Honorable Harold Nicolson was elected to BBC's Board of Governors a few days after experting on Any Questions? ; the Brains Trust disrespectfully took all the credit...