Word: pam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...
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When Lord "Pam"&#* was born into fashion and fortune, England was still unconvinced that the U. S. existed. He was barely out of school when, as Secretary of State for War, he fought Napoleon (1809). Several months after Abraham Lincoln died, he died- Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston,† Prime Minister, the most popular nobleman who ever ruled England, the only Prime Minister who ever swept the polls without better reason than that he was himself...
...only "nonsense syllables" for the singers. Thus the basses open by chanting "easygoingly but richly," in the following language: "Ta da di da ra da da." The tenors enter with "Dum pum pum pum ti di diri diri"; then the ladies: "Tara dira dara diri didi di pum pum pam...
...this case the heroine. She is a heroine, too, of the old school, a back-to-nature heroine, against a background of curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly while the incomparable Pam is battling with disease. The story...