Word: palmerston
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Nineteenth Century. Victoria's cream-colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child?but such was the irresistible convention of the crinoline...
...After all somebody must make an indiscreet speech now and again. Lord Palmerston made them from time to time and he was one of the finest of Britons. The indiscreet speech of today may be the policy of tomorrow...
...pronounced guarantee with an unexpected "w" (gwarantee) - it was a new word when Palmerston...
...PALMERSTON-Philip Guedalla-Putnam...
Surely he is Palmerston...