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...Current best-selling (in England) apologia: Curzon the Last Phase, 1919-1925, by Harold Nicolson (U. S. publishers, Houghton Mifflin...
...Completely erroneous," snapped Smith's Dean Marjorie Hope Nicolson in the same issue, is the idea that Smith and her sisters discriminate against public school products. Miss McCullough's error lay in overlooking the increasing number of girls who attend both private and public secondary schools. Half of Smith's present senior class attended public school all or part of the time, and in lower classes the proportion is even larger...
...Harold Nicolson tells the story of Arketall, Lord Curzon's famous valet, who was unreasonably fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting...
...Author. Although his father was Lord Carnock of Carnock his mother was a Rowan Hamilton of County Down. Perhaps because he has Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more...
...Harold Nicolson likes pictures but hates music. Snub-nosed, curly-haired, rosy, he looks a little too pert for his age (46), wears clothes a little too young for him. He knows "everybody" from London to Constantinople...